Hi James, On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 08:12:22AM -0700, James Smart wrote: > ouch - What you are describing is likely true, but sli-2 firmware is > *extremely* old - 2 decades or more. If a change wont work first shot, it > likely won't be worth the effort to try to fix it. Other functionality may > be hanging on by a thread. That adapter certainly runs SLI-3 (even that is > 10-15 yrs old), so the best solution is a fw upgrade that picks up the sli3 > interface. Is that possible? I forwarded the info. > Given that the error message you quoted was a failure of interrupt, that may > be a clue. It may well be the adapter has sli3 firmware and it's failing on > setting the interrupt vector type. The older adapters supported MSI and > INTx. SLI-2 may have been limited to INTx only. There used to be hiccups in > some platforms with MSI support (platform said it did, but was broken) which > is why the driver had "set it, test it, revert it" logic. I believe the > driver has a lpfc_use_msi module parameter that when set to 0 should use > only INTx, which may be what the sli2 downgrade is effectively doing. Try > setting that and seeing if the card loads the sli3 image and runs. I haven't heard back yet if the lpfc_use_msi=0 setting fixes the problem (waiting for the next maintenance window for the experiment). Thanks, Daniel
