User Manual

Rev 1.50
Mellanox Technologies
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Revision History
Printed on December 29, 2011.
Table 1 - Revision History Table
Date Revision Description
December 2011 1.50 Added the following note “This step in not required in Windows.” to the following sec-
tions:
• Section 1.3, “MFT Access to Hardware Devices,” on page 8
• Section C.1.2, “Operation,” on page 43
• Section C.2.1, “Operation,” on page 45
• Section C.3.1, “Operation,” on page 46
• Section C.4.1, “Operation,” on page 47
• Section E.3, “Software Installation,” on page 53
July 2011 1.40 • Updated Section 1.1, “Supported Operating Systems,” on page 6
• Updated Section 5, “Supported Mellanox Devices,” on page 8
• Updated “Mlxburn” format
• Added Section 2.4.2, “SwitchX™ Switch Examples,” on page 16
• Added Section 3.2.3.4, “Disabling/enabling Access to the Hardware,” on page 35
• Updated Section 3, “flint – Firmware Burning Tools,” on page 20
• Updated Section 3.2.2.1, “Burning a FW Image,” on page 24
• Updated Section 3, “flint – Firmware Burning Tools,” on page 20
• Added the “-striped_image” flag to Section 3.2.3.1, “Setting GUIDs and MACs,” on
page 27
December 2010 1.30 • Updated table in Section 2, “MFT Software Dependencies on Linux”
• Removed [-sw_sys] entries from the document
• Added device 25438 - for MT26438 ConnectX-2 VPI w/ Virtualization+
• Added Section 3.2.3.2, “Preparing a Binary Firmware Image for Pre-assembly Burn-
ing,” on page 32
• Added section “On 4th Generation Devices” on page 29.
• Updated sections “Install MFT On Linux OS” on page 10. and “Uninstall MFT
(Linux)” on page 10.
• Removed section isw Utility
• Added “Preparing a Binary Firmware Image for Pre-assembly Burning” on page 32
• Added the “-striped_image” flag in sections “mlxburn Synopsis” on page 13 and
“Switch Descriptions” on page 20
October 2009 1.20 • Added support for Mellanox MT25408 ConnectX-2, MT25408 ConnectX-2 EN,
MT25458 ConnectX-2 ENt, MT64102 BridgeX, and MT1016 PhyX devices
• Removed ibspark text (no longer supported)
• Added the option ‘-fw_dir’ to mlxburn
• Added Section 2.4.4, “BridgeX Gateway Examples”
• Added support for Expansion ROM images - see Section 3.2.2.4, “Managing an
Expansion ROM Image”
• Added Section C.3, “mlxi2c Utility”
• Added Section C.5, “mget_temp Utility”
December 2008 1.10 • Added support for In-Band device access for the Windows operating system. See
Section 1.2 and Section 1.3.
• Added Appendix E, “MTUSB-1 USB to I2C Adapter”
November 4, 2008 1.01 • Added VMware ESX Server 3.5 support. See Section 1.2.3, Section 1.3, Section
1.4.5, Section 1.4.6, and Section 2.1
• Added the -ul flag to mlxburn -see Section 2.3