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Update instructions on where to find qat firmware
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Add instructions for getting qat gen 4 firmware from
the linux-firmware repo.

Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe <[email protected]>
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fionatrahe authored and gcabiddu committed Mar 14, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -73,9 +73,15 @@ Check System Prerequisites
4xxx : Use "lspci -d 8086:4941" to check VF devices have been created.
401xx : Use "lspci -d 8086:4943" to check VF devices have been created.
* firmware must be available
Check that these files exist, if not contact [email protected]
Check that these files exist:
/lib/firmware/qat_4xxx.bin or /lib/firmware/qat_4xxx.bin.xz
/lib/firmware/qat_4xxx_mmp.bin or /lib/firmware/qat_4xxx_mmp.bin.xz
If not, download the firmware images from linux-firmware and copy them
to /lib/firmware:
wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/qat_4xxx.bin
wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/qat_4xxx_mmp.bin
sudo mv qat_4xxx.bin /lib/firmware
sudo mv qat_4xxx_mmp.bin /lib/firmware
On updating these files run "sudo dracut --force" to update initramfs.
* kernel driver must be running
Use "lsmod | grep qat" to check that these kernel modules are running:
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