Documentation for ndctl and daxctl


NAME

ndctl-update-firmware - provides for updating the firmware on an NVDIMM

SYNOPSIS

ndctl update-firmware <dimm> [<options>]

DESCRIPTION

Provide a generic interface for updating NVDIMM firmware. The use of this depends on support from the underlying libndctl, kernel, as well as the platform itself.

OPTIONS

<dimm>
A ‘nmemX’ device name, or a dimm id number. The keyword ‘all’ can be specified to carry out the operation on every dimm in the system, optionally filtered by bus id (see –bus= option).

-b; --bus=
Enforce that the operation only be carried on devices that are attached to the given bus. Where bus can be a provider name or a bus id number.

-f; --firmware
firmware file used to perform the update

-v; --verbose
Emit debug messages for the namespace check process.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2016 - 2019, Intel Corporation. License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2 http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.