Hi, I have a serious problem with my Bluefield-2 DPU. I managed to obtain two of these cards, and one of them is working perfectly, but after swapping it with the other, my system complains and I cannot access it at all. First of all, it timeouts during bootup with the following errors: mlx5_funct…

Bluefield-2 firmware is dead, cannot access, hang up at boot, cannot reflash

edowson November 7, 2023, 6:21pm 11

Hi,

The solution is to go to the UEFI BIOS configuration (default password is bluefield) and disable secure boot mode and set the BlueField mode to a valid configuration.

See Step 04.04: Ensure that the BlueField Mode is correctly set in the UEFI configuration in the following post

How to update BlueField-2 DPU with the DOCA 2.2.0 firmware image

Elvis Dowson

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Bluefield-2 firmware is dead, cannot access, hang up at boot, cannot reflash

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