One of the basic tenants of the open source community is to provide the community some access to query and to report bugs.
I invite anyone in the Mellanox Community at large to comment on how well this is provided. I ask this question since Ib which is the
bread and butter here is open source. But I digress…
I have mlxlink. It works fine to access my SB7700 once the subnet manager is up and running. The switch I want to configure the ASIC
on is right there in /dev/mst as I would expect. Using the Mellanox Firmware Tools I can use mlxreg to “show” all the registers I can see with
“show reg”. The problem is, mlxlink cannot access any of the ports, or the device for that matter because it cant find PDDR. I am not really
surprised since mlxreg doesn’t find/display that register in the first place.
Since Appendix C: in the mlxlink user manual clearly states it should access the ports on the remote switch and shows an example.
Why doesn’t it work as advertised?
–jc