Third-Party driver and RPM requirements for Slingshot SA220M Ethernet 200Gb 2-Port Mezzanine NIC

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Environment

  • HPE Cray EX Supercomputer
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
  • Slingshot SA220M Ethernet 200Gb 2‑port Mezzanine NIC

Issue

The Slingshot SA220M Ethernet 200Gb 2‑port Mezzanine NIC is not supported in RHEL and requires third-party driver and RPMs for proper functionality.

Resolution

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3

Driver Requirement
This NIC requires the Slingshot Host Software (SHS) driver, which is not included in RHEL. The out-of-box driver used for the certification is slingshot-host-software-11.0.0-64-rhel-9.3_x86_64, it can be downloaded from
https://myenterpriselicense.hpe.com/cwp-ui/product-download-info/HPE_SHS/11.0.0/sw360_hpe_internal

Required Third-Party RPMs
To fully support the NIC, the following RPMs must also be installed.

cassini2-firmware-devel-0.1-SHS11.0.0_20240617210223_9b9bed796523.noarch
cm-slingshot-3.1120-730.0930.240819T1718.r.rhel93hpe.noarch 
cray-cassini-headers-user-1.0-SHS11.0.0_20240610230652_bb18ffa76512.noarch 
cray-cxi-driver-devel-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240618224800_70e5ee8eb01a.x86_64  
cray-cxi-driver-dkms-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240618224800_70e5ee8eb01a.noarch 
cray-cxi-driver-udev-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240618224800_70e5ee8eb01a.x86_64 
cray-libcxi-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240709222343_b7f9ee46262d.x86_64 
cray-libcxi-devel-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240709222343_b7f9ee46262d.x86_64 
cray-libcxi-retry-handler-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240709222343_b7f9ee46262d.x86_64 
cray-libcxi-utils-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240709222343_b7f9ee46262d.x86_64 
cray-slingshot-base-link-devel-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240610235524_b0cef7e1081f.x86_64 
cray-slingshot-base-link-dkms-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240610235524_b0cef7e1081f.noarch 
slingshot-network-config-1.1.29-SHS11.0.0_20240606233553_354b19e4135e.x86_64 
sl-driver-devel-0.1-SHS11.0.0_0.x86_64                      
sl-driver-dkms-0.1-SHS11.0.0_0.noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.4

Driver Requirement
This NIC requires the Slingshot Host Software (SHS) driver, which is not included in RHEL. The out-of-box driver used for the certification is slingshot-host-software-11.0.0-64-rhel-9.4_x86_64, it can be downloaded from
https://myenterpriselicense.hpe.com/cwp-ui/product-download-info/HPE_SHS/11.0.0/sw360_hpe_internal

Required Third-Party RPMs
To fully support the NIC, the following RPMs must also be installed.

cm-slingshot-3.1120-730.0940.240819T1718.r.rhel94hpe.noarch
cray-cassini-headers-user-1.0-SHS11.0.0_20240610230652_bb18ffa76512.noarch
cray-cxi-driver-devel-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240618224800_70e5ee8eb01a.x86_64
cray-cxi-driver-udev-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240618224800_70e5ee8eb01a.x86_64
cray-hms-firmware-1.0-SHS11.0.0_20240606233553_935afe3c4b40.noarch
cray-libcxi-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240709222343_b7f9ee46262d.x86_64 
cray-libcxi-devel-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240709222343_b7f9ee46262d.x86_64 
cray-libcxi-retry-handler-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240709222343_b7f9ee46262d.x86_64 
cray-libcxi-utils-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240709222343_b7f9ee46262d.x86_64
cray-slingshot-base-link-devel-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240610235524_b0cef7e1081f.x86_64 
kmod-cray-cxi-driver-k5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240618224800_70e5ee8eb01a.x86_64
kmod-cray-slingshot-base-link-k5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64-0.9-SHS11.0.0_20240610235524_b0cef7e1081f.x86_64 
kmod-sl-driver-k5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64-0.1-SHS11.0.0_0.x86_64
slingshot-network-config-1.1.29-SHS11.0.0_20240606233553_354b19e4135e.x86_64 
sl-driver-devel-0.1-SHS11.0.0_0.x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.5

Driver Requirement
This NIC requires the Slingshot Host Software (SHS) driver, which is not included in RHEL. The out-of-box driver used for the certification is slingshot-host-software-12.0.0-40-rhel-9.5_x86_64, it can be downloaded from
https://myenterpriselicense.hpe.com/cwp-ui/product-download-info/HPE_SHS/12.0.0/sw360_hpe_internal

Required Third-Party RPMs
To fully support the NIC, the following RPMs must also be installed.

cassini2-firmware-devel-0.0-SHS12.0.0_20250221080133_92e7beffda38.noarch
cray-cassini-headers-user-1.1.1-SHS12.0.0_20250221080130_2b8239f06a6b.noarch
cray-cxi-driver-devel-1.0.0-SHS12.0.0_20250221102717_af5d2ed41141.x86_64
cray-cxi-driver-dkms-1.0.0-SHS12.0.0_20250221102717_af5d2ed41141.noarch
cray-cxi-driver-udev-1.0.0-SHS12.0.0_20250221102717_af5d2ed41141.x86_64
cray-libcxi-1.0.2-SHS12.0.0_20250305202110_3a33b3966d28.x86_64
cray-libcxi-devel-1.0.2-SHS12.0.0_20250305202110_3a33b3966d28.x86_64
cray-libcxi-retry-handler-1.0.2-SHS12.0.0_20250305202110_3a33b3966d28.x86_64
cray-libcxi-utils-1.0.2-SHS12.0.0_20250305202110_3a33b3966d28.x86_64
cray-slingshot-base-link-devel-1.0.0-SHS12.0.0_20250221085843_79e842240606.x86_64
cray-slingshot-base-link-dkms-1.0.0-SHS12.0.0_20250221085843_79e842240606.noarch
sl-driver-devel-1.20.1-SHS12.0.0_20250221094331_712f8affaabc.x86_64
sl-driver-dkms-1.20.1-SHS12.0.0_20250221094331_712f8affaabc.noarch
slingshot-network-config-1.2.0-SHS12.0.0_20250221104649_afcdb778b152.x86_64

Red Hat does not provide direct support for third-party drivers and RPMs, please contact HPE for any Slingshot-specific issues.

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