MSTFWRESET(1)

💖 MSTFWRESET, but make it make sense 💖

okay so bestie, you've wandered into mstfwreset(1) — it lives in the User Commands section of the man pages (iykyk, section 1 is where all the tools hang out). It's part of the mstflint crew, and it's the one you call when you need to ask a device what kind of reset it can do and then actually do it. Let's get into it. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mstfwreset — Query and perform reset operation on the device 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Here's the shape of the thing, no cap:

usage: mstfwreset --device DEVICE [--level {0,3,4,5}] [--type {0,1}]
[--yes]

       [--skip_driver] [--mst_flags MST_FLAGS] [--version] [--help]
       [--skip_fsm_sync] {q,query,r,reset,reset_fsm_register}

mstfwreset : the tool provides the following functionality in order to load new firmware, and it's giving two-step queen energy:

1. Query the device for the supported reset-level and reset-type 👀
2. Perform reset operation on the device 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --device DEVICE, -d DEVICE — Device to work with 🫶
• --level {0,3,4,5}, -l {0,3,4,5} — Run reset with the specified reset-level ⭐
• --type {0,1}, -t {0,1} — Run reset with the specified reset-type 🌈
• --yes, -y — answer "yes" on prompt 🙈
• --skip_driver, -s — Skip driver start/stop stage (driver must be stopped manually) 💀
• --mst_flags MST_FLAGS, -m MST_FLAGS — Provide mst flags to be used when invoking mst restart step. For example: --mst_flags="--with_fpga" 🎀
• --version, -v — Print tool version 👑
• --help, -h — show this help message and exit 🌸
• --skip_fsm_sync — Skip fsm syncing 🧚

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🎀 Commands 🎀

the command menu, bestie, pick one:

• {q,query,r,reset,reset_fsm_register}
• query: Query reset Level.
• reset: Execute reset.
• reset_fsm_register: Reset the fsm register.

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💜 Reset levels 💜

• 0: Driver, PCI link, network link will remain up ("live-Patch") 🌈
• 3: Driver restart and PCI reset
• 4: Warm Reboot
• 5: Cold Reboot

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🍓 Reset types 🍓

• 0: Full chip reset
• 1: Phy-less reset ("port-alive" - network link will remain up) ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• mstflint(1)

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it 💅 no notes, periodt. this lil gem is mstflint, March 2020, and yeah the page is literally called MSTFWRESET(1) — now go reset something responsibly, bestie 🫶💖✨