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Cisco SFS InfiniBand Host Drivers User Guide for Linux
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Installing Host Drivers
The chapter includes the following sections:
• Introduction, page 2-1
• Contents of ISO Image, page 2-2
• Installing Host Drivers from an ISO Image, page 2-2
• Uninstalling Host Drivers from an ISO Image, page 2-3
Note See the “Root and Non-root Conventions in Examples” section on page ix for details about the
significance of prompts used in the examples in this chapter.
Introduction
The Cisco Linux IB driver is delivered as an ISO image. The ISO image contains the binary RPMs for
selected Linux distributions. The Cisco Linux IB drivers distribution contains an installation script
called tsinstall. The install script performs the necessary steps to accomplish the following:
• Discover the currently installed kernel
• Uninstall any IB stacks that are part of the standard operating system distribution
• Install the Cisco binary RPMs if they are available for the current kernel
• Identify the currently installed IB HCA and perform the required firmware updates
Note For specific details about which binary RPMs are included and which standard Linux distributions and
kernels are currently supported, see the Release Notes for Linux Host Drivers Release 3.2.0.