Mellanox FlexBoot for ConnectX
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1. 6 1 2 Supported Tools MET dp en dite deae eee 6 1 3 Supported Operating Systems sse eee eere 6 1 4 Tested 7 2 Changes and New Features Rev 3 4 650 8 3 KNOWN ISSUCS 9 s o o aa Mellanox Technologies Rev 3 4 650 Table of Contents List of Tables Table 1 Document Revision History 5 Table 2 Supported Adapter Cards and Firmware sss 6 Table 3 Supported Tools MPT ae te dg eec ope e e age ede de e a dp ie o dua 6 Table 4 Operating Systems re i eee et nato ee ee e te de P ete EE eae 6 Table S Tested 7 Table 6 Changes and Fixes in Rev 3 4 560 8 Table 7 KNOWN ISSUES ninh alannah net ird ce Eee eh Tea Pep cet kde eee oe 9 Mellanox Technologies Mellanox FlexBoot for ConnectX 4 Release Notes Rev 3 4 650 Document Revision History Table 1 Document Revision History Revision Date Description 3 4 650 September 2015 Initial release of this FlexBoot version2. 2 Mellanox Technologies Rev 3 4 650 Overview 1 Overview These are the release notes for Mellanox FlexBoot the software for Boot over Mellanox Technologies adapter devices supporting VPI FlexBoot enables booting kernels or operating systems OS from remote servers in compliance with the PXE specification This package is based on the open source project iPXE available at http www ipxe org 1 1 Supported Adapter Cards and Firmware Table 2 Supported Adapter Cards and Firmware Adapter Cards Firmware Version Connect IB 10 12 0780 ConnectX 4 Lx 14 12 0780 ConnectX 4 12 12 0780 1 2 Supported Tools MFT Table 3 Supported Tools MFT Tools Version MFT Mellanox Firmware Tools 4 1 0 1 3 Supported Operating Systems Table 4 Operating Systems OSs Version ESXi 5 5 RHEL 6 4 RHEL 6 6 RHEL 7 0 RHEL 7 1 SLES 11 3 SLES 11 4 Ethernet only SLES 12 Ubuntu 14 04 Ethernet only Ubuntu 15 4 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012R2 Mellanox Technologies Tested Platforms Table 5 Tested Platforms Mellanox FlexBoot for ConnectX 4 Release Notes Rev 3 4 650 Server Vendor amp Model BIOS Manuf amp Version DELL C6220 Dell Inc 2 5 3 DELL C6220 II Dell Inc 2 4 2 DELL C7220N 2 1 11 DELL M630 DELL 1 0 3 DELL R720 DELL 2 5 2 DELL R730 DELL 1 3 6 DELL Stryper 3A06 HP BL46
3. 0c Gen9 136 v1 50 HP DL160 Gen9 U20 HP DL360 Gen9 P89 v1 50 HP DL380 Gen9 P89 v1 50 HP Moonshot Anders M710 HP systems H03 IBM System x3850 X6 M4 WillyCat HP ProLiant SE2140s Gen8 MiniPooch P87 HP ProLiant XL230b Gen9 U12 HP SE2140s Gen8 P87 HP SE2160w Gen9 U16 HP SL230s Gen8 P75 HP XL230a Gen9 U13 v1 40 HP XL230b Gen9 U12 v1 30 IBM Flex system x220 KSE142AUS 1 50 IBM Flex system x240 B2E142AUS 1 50 IBM System x3650 M4 VVE142EUS 1 80 A8E11AUS 1 00 Quanta T6MG American Megatrends Inc C1031 BS 3A09 Quanta Winterfell American Megatrends Inc F03 3B07 Supermicro XODRW American Megatrends Inc 3 0c Wiwynn WCS American Megatrends Inc C1032 BS 1C03 GN1 ZT American Megatrends Inc 2 59 Eo 60 Mellanox Technologies Rev 3 4 650 Changes and New Features in Rev 3 4 650 2 Changes and New Features in Rev 3 4 650 Table 6 Changes and Fixes in Rev 3 4 560 Category Description FlexBoot Code Size Added support for mrom images larger than 128kB Adapter Cards Added support for ConnectX 4 and ConnectX 4 Lx Synced the source with iPXE upstream sync Upstream sync Moved to flat real mode when calling INT 1a b101 to avoid BIOSes issues BIOS Compatibility Spanning Tree Added support for detecting Spanning Tree Protocol non forwarding ports Protocol RSTP MSTP Mellanox Technologies Mellanox Fle
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6. ation is currently not supported iSCSI Boot Boot retries is currently not functional when N A booting from iSCSI Blink LEDs Blink LEDs are currently not supported N A iSCSI Connection FlexBoot supports only a single active iSCSI N A connection Thus when iSCSI boot via Port 1 succeeds to connect but fails to boot it will fail to connect via Port 2 FlexBoot Boot Menu FlexBoot Boot Menu will not be visible in N A Mellanox Technologies s Rev 3 4 650 Known Issues Category Description Workaround FlexBoot Boot Menu FlexBoot Boot Menu is not supported in N A Connect IB FlexBoot Boot Menu FlexBoot Boot Menu will not be shown in N A ConnectX 4 and ConnectX 4 Lx if the physical port is IB Link Speed 56Gb s is currently not supported N A Boot Loaders Some faulty boot loaders do not close the N A underlying UNDI device which may result in unexpected behavior and possible system crash after the OS starts to load BIOS If a client returned control to the BIOS after a Follow the instructions successful connection to an iSCSI target but described in the UM for did not boot from it then unexpected the proper iSCSI behavior may occur boot install IPv6 IPv6 is currently not supported Spanning Tree Occasionally using the Spanning Tree Enable the edgemode Protocol STP Protocol STP in the switches may cause if disabled on the packet drops and boot failure in th
7. e system switch or use either portfast or edgemode functionality on the switch ports connected to the NICs SR IOV Setting the number of Virtual Functions higher N A than the machine s memory capability may cause memory issues and system instability PXE Boot In some cases PXE boot will not work if the N A client was given only the filename without next server siaddr BIOS FlexBoot may not work as expected with N A systems that run with large bar enabled Above 4G Decoding over Connect IB or ConnectX 4 HCAs PXE Boot In ConnectX 4 the PXE boot time N A measurement over TFTP is 5 20 min for image size of IGB and iSCSI boot time measurement is 8 seconds for image size of 25 MB Chain loading gPXE Chain loading gPXE stack may result in N A undesirable behavior Mellanox Technologies RN
8. xBoot for ConnectX 4 Release Notes Rev 3 4 650 3 Known Issues The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of this FlexBoot release Table 7 Known Issues serial output Category Description Workaround BIOS Several BIOS vendors have limited boot Disable the embedded vector space and may not display FlexBoot in NIC boot agent in BIOS their boot menu BIOS In several BIOS the server might hang during N A FlexBoot booting due to wrong configuration of the PMM Large Receive Large Receive Offload LRO and iSCSI may Disable LRO in the Offload LRO not interoperate due to a bug in current Linux IPoIB module when kernel distributions using iSCSI See the Mellanox FlexBoot user s manual for details under the Diskless Machines chapter InfiniBand Ports iSCSI over IB iSCSI over IB is not tested N A iSCSI over DCB iSCSI over DCB is not supported N A MTU Flexboot supports only 2K MTU N A BIOS Compatibility Only EBX ESLDS ES registers can be saved N A in Boot Entry Protocols SLAM FTP HTTPS and SRP are currently not N A supported FCoE BCV FCoE BCV are not supported N A Boot over VLAN Boot over VLAN with IB port is currently not N A supported FlexBoot Boot Menu Boot menu is displayed as READ ONLY if the N A HCA card does not support flash configuration PXE Boot after PXE boot after iSCSI boot with static N A iSCSI Boot configur
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