Specifications

Table of Contents
3
Preface ................................................................................................................................................ 5
About this manual........................................................................................................................................5
What’s new in this manual...........................................................................................................................5
Where to get more product information.......................................................................................................5
About related Radisys products...................................................................................................................5
Related documents......................................................................................................................................6
Notational conventions ................................................................................................................................6
Electrostatic discharge ................................................................................................................................6
Chapter 1: Introduction to the update process................................................................................ 7
Overview of the update process..................................................................................................................8
Upgrade support policy..............................................................................................................................11
Chapter 2: Performing an update using rfw-update...................................................................... 13
Step 1: Plan the update.............................................................................................................................13
Step 2: Obtain the update bundles from Radisys ......................................................................................17
Step 3: Prepare the Linux host..................................................................................................................18
Step 4: Update IPMC FPGA devices.........................................................................................................20
Step 5: Create a configuration file (conf.rfw) .............................................................................................21
Step 6: Update the AMC-7211 and AMC-7212 .........................................................................................25
Step 7: Run the rfw-update utility ..............................................................................................................26
Step 8: Rediscover the shelf......................................................................................................................29
Step 9: Update remaining components .....................................................................................................30
Chapter 3: Using rsys-update for single product updates ........................................................... 31
rsys-update command options...................................................................................................................32
rsys-update help........................................................................................................................................33
Using URLs with rsys-update ....................................................................................................................33
Using full path lists.....................................................................................................................................34
Using local directories ...............................................................................................................................34
Updating all redundant components on a single module...........................................................................34
Updating non-redundant devices...............................................................................................................35
Chapter 4: Updating ATCA-45xx CPMs.......................................................................................... 37
Installing the required OS RPM packages.................................................................................................37
Installing the BIOS update driver for rsys-update......................................................................................41