Pertinant highlights from Myricom CHANGES file include:
- Make sure invalid external smbus activity cannot affect performance
- Fix to avoid a bug where the link could sometimes stay reported as
up on after unplugging the cable.
- For 8B NIC, make smbus connection passive at init to avoid
possible address conflicts
- Increase number of slices to 17 for multi-slice fw
- Fix a bug where packets dropped because of link_overflow could
be occasionally reported as bad_crc32
- Add selectable failover strategy for dual-port chip: symmetric or primary/backup
- On failover, send RARP broadcast to make the change immediately
known to the network
- Change endianess for PCI Device Serial Number
- For dual-port NICs, time to failover is now a few microsecs
instead of a few millisecs.
MFC after: 3 days
- Support for 10G-PCIE*-8B*-C (dual-port CX4) NICs
- For dual-port NICs, f/w failover is now a few microsecs
instead of a few millisecs.
- On failover, f/w sends RARP broadcast to make the change
immediately known to the network
- Fixed a bug observed on IBM X3 architecture where
some spurious ecrc errors would be reported when OS enabled
ecrc support.
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
- Update to firmware 1.4.39 for dual-chip NIC (10G-PCIE2-xxx)
support, and SFP+ i2c support
- Identify newer "B" NICs (10G-PCIEx-8B-x) correctly, rather than
mis-identifying them as "A" NICs (cosmetic only)
- Identify the IFM_10G_LRM ifmedia type, where applicable.
- Identify ifmedia types for SFP+ based NICs
- Update copyright
Sponsored by: Myricom
MFC after: 1 week
This update fixes a transmit bug in the multi-queue (MSI-X) firmware
which happens when RDMAs complete out of order, and provides
improved support for the new Myri10GE NIC models (10G-PCIE-8Bx)
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
MFC after:3 days
- Support for Myricom 10G-PCIE-8B NICs
- multi-slice firmware: fix a bug when the presence of 32-bit or
64-bit DMA addresses for interrupt queues and data is not uniform across
slices.
- Improves automatic selection between ethp_z8e/eth_z8e
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
queues (which we call slices). The NIC will steer traffic into up to
hw.mxge.max_slices different receive rings based on a configurable
hash type (hw.mxge.rss_hash_type).
Currently the driver defaults to using a single slice, so the default
behavior is unchanged. Also, transmit from non-zero slices is
disabled currently.
