On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:39:04 +0530 Ganji Aravind wrote: > On Thursday, July 07/30/20, 2020 at 16:23:35 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:41:38 +0530 Ganji Aravind wrote: > > > Update set_flash to flash firmware configuration image > > > to flash region. > > > > And the reason why you need to flash some .ini files separately is? > > Hi Jakub, > > The firmware config file contains information on how the firmware > should distribute the hardware resources among NIC and > Upper Layer Drivers(ULD), like iWARP, crypto, filtering, etc. > > The firmware image comes with an in-built default config file that > distributes resources among the NIC and all the ULDs. However, in > some cases, where we don't want to run a particular ULD, or if we > want to redistribute the resources, then we'd modify the firmware > config file and then firmware will redistribute those resources > according to the new configuration. So, if firmware finds this > custom config file in flash, it reads this first. Otherwise, it'll > continue initializing the adapter with its own in-built default > config file.
Sounds like something devlink could be extended to do. Firmware update interface is not for configuration.
