Re: Recommended methods to upgrade firmware on HBAs

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Jacob
The current firmware(9) mechanism might work for you. The QLogic FC/SCSI cards in FreeBSD use that for loading firmware images to download to the cards, albeit to just load and reset, to update flash. "not to update flash" (locations in flash where to put firmware are not documented by Ql

Re: Recommended methods to upgrade firmware on HBAs

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Jacob
The current firmware(9) mechanism might work for you. The QLogic FC/SCSI cards in FreeBSD use that for loading firmware images to download to the cards, albeit to just load and reset, to update flash. This allows the drivers themselves to request updates. Note that the root filesystem has to

Recommended methods to upgrade firmware on HBAs

2011-09-22 Thread David Somayajulu
Hi All, 1. What is the current recommended method for upgrading firmware for HBAs? 2. Is there a mechanism wherein the firmware binary can be provided as a separate file, which is then made accessible to the corresponding device driver during device initialization? 3. Is the