| Myri10GE 1.5.1 Linux (October 7, 2009) |
| ------------------- |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Firmware version 1.4.45. See ../firmware/CHANGES for details. |
| 2) Support for host driven adaptive interrupt coalescing. |
| 3 Detect and optionally fix inconsistent MSI configuration in |
| some Nvidia chipsets. |
| 4) Improved support for parity recovery. |
| 5) Added module parameter (myri10ge_gro) to control enabling |
| or disabling GRO at driver load time. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed GRO related compilation issues with RHEL5 kernels. |
| 2) Eliminate a rare null skb dereference in the GRO frags |
| codepath. |
| 3) Worked around panic in -RT kernels caused by using spinlocks |
| to enable PAT. |
| |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.5.0 Linux (June 5, 2009) |
| ------------------- |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Default MTU changed to non-jumbo (1500 bytes). |
| 2) Added a new compile time flag (MYRI10GE_JUMBO) to enable |
| a default jumbo MTU at compile time. |
| 3) Firmware version 1.4.43. See ../firmware/CHANGES for details. |
| 4) Added the ability to specify the firmware image to load on a |
| per-NIC basis using the myri10ge_fw_names module parameter. |
| 5) Added ability to enable or disable LRO with ethtool. |
| 6) Added support for stateless offloads in combination with vlans. |
| (dependent on kernel version). |
| 7) Improved accuracy of informing user if WC is enabled. |
| 8) Added support for GRO (dependent on kernel version). |
| 9) Added PCI alias information to modinfo output. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a compilation problem on RHEL5 Update 3 |
| 2) Fixed a bug where ethool -S might report stale packet |
| and byte counters. |
| 3) Fixed a bug where myri10ge_vlan_csum_fixup was not honored |
| for some frames, leading to "hw tcp v4 csum failed" messages when |
| using vlans with LRO on RHEL4 Update 7. |
| 4) Fixed a bug where the transmit ring size was reported incorrectly |
| via ethtool -g. |
| 5) Fixed a bug which could prevent bonding from working in arp |
| monitoring mode when LRO was enabled. |
| 6) Fixed a bug which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference when |
| LRO was enabled on kernel 2.6.17 or older. |
| 7) Fixed compilation problems on ia64. |
| 8) Worked around a rare RHEL5 deadlock caused by updating carrier state |
| from an irq context. |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.4.4 Linux (Jan 9, 2009) |
| ------------------- |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Firmware version 1.4.38. See ../firmware/CHANGES for details. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a bug which prevented host packet drops from being reported. |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.4.3 Linux (November 4, 2008) |
| ------------------- |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Removed obsolete myri10ge_wcfifo code and module parameter. |
| 2) Added support for multiple transmit queues on kernel 2.6.27 or newer. |
| 3) Firmware version 1.4.36. See ../firmware/CHANGES for details. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a bug which prevented the driver from functioning on |
| 32-bit powerpc machines. |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.4.2 Linux (April 17, 2008) |
| ------------------- |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Added support for Intel DCA (Direct Cache Access). |
| 2) Firmware version 1.4.31. See ../firmware/CHANGES for details. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a bug where myri10ge_vlan_csum_fixup was not honored |
| for some frames, leading to "hw tcp v4 csum failed" messages when |
| using vlans with LRO on older kernels. |
| 2) Fixed a compilation problem on ia64. |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.4.1 Linux (Feb 12, 2008) |
| ------------------- |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| |
| 1) Generalized the PAT implementation so as to better coexist with |
| other vendors' drivers. |
| 2) Firmware version 1.4.30. See ../firmware/CHANGES for details. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed an MTRR setup bug introduced in 1.4.0 which caused write |
| combining to always fail to be enabled when PAT setup failed. |
| 2) Fixed compilation problems introduced in 1.4.0. |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.4.0 Linux (Jan 10, 2008) |
| ------------------- |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| |
| 1) The driver now uses the inet_lro Linux kernel LRO. |
| 2) Added support for TSO when using TCP over IPv6. |
| 3) Added support for MSI-X interrupts and multiple receive queues. |
| 4) Added support for transmit rate throttling. |
| 5) Added support for Linux kernel 2.6.24 |
| 6) Added support for new device id 9. |
| 7) Firmware version 1.4.29. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed spurious watchdog resets triggered by a non-consuming link |
| partner. |
| 2) Fixed a bug that could prevent the driver from working |
| on MIPS based machines. |
| 3) Fixed unaligned access warnings on sparc64 hosts. |
| |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.3.1 Linux (July 17, 2007) |
| ------------------- |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| |
| 1) The driver now automatically selects which firmware image to use, |
| rather than relying on a whitelist of PCIe chipsets. |
| 2) Restored support for receiving into skbufs via the |
| MYRI10GE_RX_SKBS compile-time option. |
| 3) Added make install-only target to simplify installation. |
| 4) Exported tunable settings via ethtool. |
| 5) PAT is used in preference to MTRRs. |
| 6) Ethtool now reports link status. |
| 7) Firmware version 1.4.21. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a bug where promiscuous mode settings could be |
| lost across a device reset. |
| 2) Fixed a bug in the LRO code which could result in a null pointer |
| dereference. |
| 3) Fixed a bug where 16MB of kernel memory would be leaked per |
| NIC at module unload time when using PAT. |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.3.0 Linux (April 12, 2007) |
| ------------------- |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Added support for building the firmware into the myri10ge |
| kernel module. |
| 2) Packets constructed by LRO now have their TCP checksums |
| updated, rather than simply verified. |
| 3) Integrated PAT support to automatically enable write combining on |
| x86 and x86_64. |
| 4) Adjusted interrupt coalescing (myri10ge_intr_coal_delay) |
| and write combining fifo (myri10ge_wcfifo) defaults to provide |
| improved performance with 1500 byte MTUs. |
| 5) Firmware version 1.4.14. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Worked around a bug where broadcast packets would be incorrectly |
| treated as multicast packets and filtered when adopting older |
| firmware. |
| 2) Fixed a bug which could negatively impact communications between |
| hosts with different MTUs when TSO is enabled. |
| 3) Fixed a bug which could lead to incorrect hardware checksums being |
| reported for frames padded with non-zero data when LRO was enabled. |
| 4) Worked around bugs present in kernels older than 2.6.18 which are |
| triggered by receiving non-IP traffic into fragmented skbs. |
| 5) Fixed a bug which could result in memory corruption when our device |
| was configured with an MTU between 5996 and 8044 bytes on a machine |
| using 16KB pages. |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.2.0 Linux (January 10, 2007) |
| ------------------- |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) LRO is now supported for 802.1q vlan tagged frames. |
| 2) Support for Linux kernel versions up to 2.6.20. |
| 3) Firmware version 1.4.11. |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a bug where the watchdog hander could race |
| with the interrupt handler. |
| 2) Fixed a bug where frames received via LRO were not reflected |
| in our interface statistics counters. |
| 3) Fixed a bug where padded frames were treated improperly by |
| the LRO code. |
| 4) Fixed handling of reserved ethernet packets (01:80:c2:00:00:0X) |
| which had been silently dropped. They will now increment the |
| dropped_link_error_or_filtered counter unless the device is |
| in promisc mode, in which case they will be passed up to the driver. |
| 5) Workaround PCIE deadlock for some PM transitions sequence. |
| 6) Firmware ensures -0 is never used in the ipv4 header checksum field |
| (TSO case). Known receivers don't distinguish between +0 and -0, but |
| RFC1624 recommends to be safe. |
| |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.1.0 Linux (September 8, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a bug where the watchdog reset handler might |
| be invoked spuriously. |
| 2) Fixed firmware bug where the firmware could send runt |
| frames when TSO is enabled. |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Multicast filtering support. |
| 2) TCP Large Receive Offload support. This support is |
| presently limited to TCP over IPv4, with no VLANs. It is |
| done entirely within the driver. |
| 3) The receive portion of the driver was re-written so as to |
| avoid large physically contiguous skb allocations for jumbo |
| frames by using multiple pages attached to the skb. |
| 4) Firmware version 1.4.6. |
| |
| Myri10GE 1.0.0 Linux (June 8, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a bug where ethtool would incorrectly report |
| that transmit checksum offload was disabled, when in |
| fact it was enabled on older 2.6 kernels. |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) NAPI receive interrupt support is enabled and |
| no longer optional. |
| 2) Many source code cleanups. |
| 3) Modinfo now reports module parameter information. |
| 4) Firmware version 1.4.3. |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.9.2rc0 Beta (May 31, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Firmware fixes a PCI-Express send fifo overrun triggered by |
| ethernet interrupt DMAs. This could lead to lockups on Intel E7520 |
| motherboards when the interrupt coalescing timer is set to 1. |
| |
| 2) Fixed a bug in the Solaris driver which could lead to |
| a null pointer dereference when unplumbing the interface |
| under heavy receive load. |
| 3) Fixed a bug in the Solaris driver which could lead to a |
| null pointer dereference when the interface attaches to |
| a busy shared interrupt line. |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Support for MSI interrupts on Solaris. |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.9.1 Beta (May 25, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| BUG FIXES: |
| |
| 1) Firmware fixes a PCI-Express resending bug that shows up on some |
| E7520 machines |
| 2) Fixed a bug in the Solaris driver which could lead to |
| a null pointer dereference when plumbing the interface |
| if our device is assigned a shared interrupt. |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Doubled transmit performance on CoolThreads-based UltraSparcs |
| by deserializing the Solaris driver's transmit routine. |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.9.0 Beta (April 15, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a bug where firmware would drop frames when it ran |
| out of host buffers to DMA them to even when flow control |
| was enabled. |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Power management support added to firmware and Linux driver. |
| 2) Linux driver will attempt to fall back to using the firmware |
| resident in the NIC if hotplug fails to find a firmware image. |
| 3) Linux NAPI support added. |
| 4) Linux driver support for IPv6 checksum offload added. |
| 5) Linux driver now uses a more aggressive watchdog which will catch |
| problems before the kernel's netdev watchdog. |
| 6) Preliminary Linux driver support for parity error recovery added. |
| 7) Firmware version 1.4.0 |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.8.1 Beta (April 6, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a bug where interrupt livelock could prematurely trigger |
| the driver's watchdog timer, causing the nic to be needlessly |
| reset on Linux, Solaris, and MacOSX. |
| 2) Fixed a non-compliance with PCI-Express specification, where the link |
| retraining was not being initiated upon REPLAY_NUM Rollover. This fix |
| resolves the hung-network-connections problem observed on Sun T2000 |
| (Ontario) machines. |
| 3) Fixed two bugs in PCI-Express resending code, which show up when |
| it is stressed on Intel 7520 based machine. |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| |
| 1) PCI-Express DMA bandwidth is measured and reported in an OS dependent |
| way by the driver. |
| 2) Improved 802.1q VLAN support on Linux. |
| 3) Firmware support for PCI-Express relaxed ordering added to Solaris |
| driver. |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.8.0 Beta (March 29, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Linux MSI enablement heuristic sometimes gave incorrect results |
| on machines with multiple chipsets. |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) TCP Segmentation Offload (also known as Large Send Offload) |
| implemented on Linux and Windows. |
| 2) Interrupt method changed to allow for more events to be |
| processed per interrupt. |
| 3) MacOSX support added. |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.7.2 Beta (March 8, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed a memory leak which would happen when plumbing |
| and unplumbing the Solaris driver. |
| 2) Fixed a potential double free which could happen in |
| the error path if plumbing the Solaris driver failed. |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Improved receive performance on CoolThreads-based UltraSparc |
| systems by optionally doing receive side scaling in the |
| Solaris driver. |
| 2) Improved transmit performance on CoolThreads based UltraSparc |
| systems by optionally doing transmit complete interrupt |
| processing in a different context, and by copying small packets. |
| 3) Firmware bug fixes and optimizations. |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.7.1 Beta (February 2, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fixed erratic TCP receive performance on Linux caused by the |
| driver confusing the kernel algorithm which calculates socket buffer |
| sizes. |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.7.0 Beta (January 25, 2006) |
| ------------------- |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Interrupt handler now issues PIO reads when using xPIC interrupts |
| to ensure interrupt line is low by the time the handler returns. |
| 2) Driver initializes Max Read Request size in PCI config space. |
| 3) Firmware fix for NIC hang under load on machines with Serverworks |
| HT2000 chipset |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Heuristic to decide whether to use MSIs or INTx interrupts on |
| Linux to work around interrupt delivery problems on some chipsets. |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.6.0 Beta (December 23, 2005) |
| ------------------- |
| |
| BUG FIXES: |
| 1) Fix a bug which prevented flow control from being enabled. |
| |
| ENHANCEMENTS: |
| 1) Windows support added |
| 2) Solaris/sparc support added |
| 3) Dropped packet counters exported to driver from NIC |
| 4) Flow control can now be enabled or disabled at driver |
| load time on all platforms, and at runtime on Linux. |
| |
| Myri10GE 0.5.0 Beta (December 8, 2005) |
| ------------------- |
| Initial Release |