How to Check the Firmware Version of Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) Hardware in Linux*

Is there a way to check the firmware of the Intel QAT 8960 card?

The Intel® QAT firmware version is exposed as part of the /sys/kernel/debug/qat* directory tree. The information of all Intel® QAT End-Points, including the firmware information, is available in this directory.

To check the current firmware version, run the following commands:

1. Run the command ll /sys/kernel/debug/qat* to display all the information for the Intel® QAT End-Points. You will see an output similar to the following:

'/sys/kernel/debug/qat_c6xx_0000:3f:00.0':
total 0
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Apr 20 18:29 cnv_errors
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Apr 20 18:29 dev_cfg
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Apr 20 18:29 frequency
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Apr 20 18:29 fw_counters
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Apr 20 18:29 heartbeat
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Apr 20 18:29 heartbeat_failed
-r--------. 1 root root 0 Apr 20 18:29 heartbeat_sent
drwxr-xr-x. 18 root root 0 Apr 20 18:29 transport
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Apr 20 18:29 version

2. The version subdirectory includes the firmware version information. Run the following command to display it:

# cat /sys/kernel/debug/qat_c6xx_0000\:3f\:00.0/version/fw
4.2.0

The Intel® QAT driver package has to be installed in the system to properly display the Intel® QAT End-Points information.