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| RELEASE NOTES | |
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| Chelsio T3 Network Driver for Linux | |
| Version : 2.0.0.1 | |
| Date : 08/23/2012 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
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| - Fixed: version string in the generated RPM. | |
| 2.ERRATA (Open Issues) | |
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| - 10420: NFS connectivity toggles, while running "iozone -a" on the mounted | |
| share | |
| - 10741: Traffic is not running on multiple slaves of bond mode=2 with policy | |
| layer3+4 | |
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| Version : 2.0.0.0 | |
| Date : 08/10/2012 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
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| - Fixed: t3_tom and t4_tom compatibilty issues on supported platforms. | |
| - Added: Support for RHEL6.3, RHEL5.8. | |
| - Added: TOE Bonding support for RHEL5.7, RHEL5.8. | |
| 2.ERRATA (Open Issues) | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - 10420: NFS connectivity toggles, while running "iozone -a" on the mounted | |
| share | |
| - 10741: Traffic is not running on multiple slaves of bond mode=2 with policy | |
| layer3+4 | |
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| Version : 1.6.0.3 | |
| Date : 03/22/2012 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
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| - Fixed: Compilation issues observed on RHEL4.7 and kernels 2.6.23 - 2.6.26. | |
| - Fixed: Error messages observed while runnig ifup-local in RHEL6. | |
| - Fixed: Boot Image Loading using cxgbtool. | |
| - Fixed: Unable to establish a Tx Connection if there is no ARP entry for the | |
| PEER. | |
| - Added: Support for RHEL6.1, RHEL6.2, RHEL5.7. | |
| - Added: TOE Bonding support for RHEL6.1 and RHEL6.2. | |
| 2.ERRATA (Open Issues) | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - 10420: NFS connectivity toggles, while running "iozone -a" on the mounted | |
| share | |
| - 10741: Traffic is not running on multiple slaves of bond mode=2 with policy | |
| layer3+4 | |
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| Version : 1.5.2.0 | |
| Date : 12/02/2011 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
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| - Added die notifier to bring the link down in case of kernel panic. | |
| - Added support for firmware and driver Watchdog. | |
| - Updated Firmware to 7.12.0. | |
| - Added support for RHEL 4.x | |
| 2.ERRATA (Open Issues) | |
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| - 2716: Unable to compile chiscsi-target-5.0.0059.3 in offload mode with | |
| cxgb3toe-1.5.2.0 | |
| - 960: Running iozone on nfs shared directory mounted using proto UDP stals | |
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| Version : 1.5.1.6 | |
| Date : 03/04/2011 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
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| - Added support for 2.6.33, 2.6.35, 2.6.36 | |
| - Fix Queue full/Restart mechanism on dual port | |
| adapters when multiple TX queue feature is supported | |
| - Added TOE bonding support for RHEL 6.0 | |
| - Fixed 1G autonegotiation issues | |
| - Fixed failure with MSI interrupt mode | |
| - Support for RedHat MRG-1.3 kernel | |
| 2.ERRATA (Open Issues) | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - 2716: Unable to compile chiscsi-target-5.0.0059.3 in offload mode with | |
| cxgb3toe-1.5.1.6 | |
| - 960: Running iozone on nfs shared directory mounted using proto UDP stals | |
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| Version : 1.5.0.3 | |
| Date : 10/08/2010 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - Added support for 2.6.32, 33, 34. | |
| - Added TOE bonding support for RHEL5.5 | |
| - Bind with FW 7.11 | |
| - Release filtering and traffic management features. | |
| - Fixed Twinax modules detection | |
| - Refactor mac layer link fault handling to clean up phy and mac layer link | |
| event management. | |
| - Fixed bonding oops with multiple bonding devices | |
| - Fixed back pressure issue seen on S304 adapters | |
| - Disabled dynamic selective ack when it is administratively set to 0 | |
| - Fixed LACP support on S304 adapters | |
| - Updated parity error management to avoid driver soft lockups. | |
| 2.ERRATA (Open Issues) | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - 625: Low performance seen while running TCP & UDP traffic on IBM Blade Server. | |
| - 830: cxgb3-toe not compiling in latest linux kernel (2.6.35-5-default). | |
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| Version : 1.4.1 | |
| Date : Apr 2010 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - Fixes for cxgbtool | |
| - Fix for link flap issue | |
| - Fix for VLAN on top of bonding in TOE mode. | |
| 2.ERRATA (Open Issues) | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - 12858: "modinfo cxgb3" displays the incorrect driver version if inbox OFED | |
| driver is already installed on SLES 11- 64 and 32 bit platforms | |
| - 12869: Unable to detach the slaves when bonded in TOE mode using | |
| ifenslave -d <bondX> <ethX> | |
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| Version : 1.4 | |
| Date : Feb 2010 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - Added support for 2.6.31, 2.6.32 | |
| - Added auto negotiation support for 1 port 10G base-T adapters. | |
| - Optimizes response queue sizes to limit chip starvation | |
| - Added support for Traffic management and Filtering. | |
| Please contact support@chelsio.com for more details. | |
| - Fixed VLAN over Jumbo frames connectivity issues | |
| - Added support for Ubuntu 9.10 platform | |
| - Fix potential link flap issues on 2 ports LP-CR adapters | |
| - Support for TX multi queues when the stack supports it. | |
| - Fixed rare TOM DDP crash when closing a connection. | |
| 2.ERRATA (Open Issues) | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - 7302: OS reports link up when TX cable is unplugged,if the peer interface is | |
| down when bringing up the DUTs interface | |
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| Version : 1.3.1 | |
| Date :August 2009 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
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| - Added support for S320E-LP-CR adapter. | |
| - Added support for N320E-G2 adapter. | |
| - Added support for 10G base-T adapters. | |
| - Fixed FCS errors seen on S302 adapters in jumbo frame mode. | |
| - Fix offload Tx zero copy behaviour in conjunction with non blocking writes. | |
| - Fixed a 1.3 regression crash in offload Rx DDP mode. | |
| - Fixed a potential link report error for AEL1006 and QT2045 phy based adapters. | |
| 2.ERRATA (Open Issues) | |
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| - N/A | |
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| Version : 1.3 | |
| Date : 06/03/2009 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
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| - Set up one queue only in INTx and MSI mode | |
| - Allows MSI-X mode even if the system allocates less vectors than requested | |
| - Allows package to compile on xen enabled systems | |
| - Fixed TOE performance issue in request-response scenario | |
| - Added TOE support for 2.6.29 | |
| - Added TOE support for 2.6.30 | |
| - The TOE driver allocates its own structure, as opposed to use existing stack | |
| structures | |
| - Fixed SGE RX refill scheme when HW available Rx entries are low | |
| - Start the SGE context timers after the queue sets have been allocated successfully. | |
| - Added support to dump egress context through cxgbtool | |
| - Added support to retrieve trace filter configuration through cxgbtool. | |
| - Added filtering and Traffic management - please contact the support team ( | |
| support@chelsio.com) | |
| - Poll the adapter for free list empty conditions, as opposed to getting | |
| interrupted | |
| - Added XOR bonding mode for TOE. | |
| - Fixed VLAN and bonding cohabitation in TOE mode. | |
| - Updated T3B2 xgmac hang workaround logic to avoid false positives | |
| - Avoided XGMAC back pressure issues when ports are configured down. | |
| - Fixed TOE TX zero copy on recent kernels | |
| - Fixed crash when the driver is unloaded under heavy offload traffic | |
| - Fixed soft lockups on driver module removal | |
| - Fixed a race condition in the neighbour management of offloaded connections | |
| - Fixed a performance issue using addresses 203.x.y.z | |
| - Fixed Rx FIFO pause HWM computation | |
| - Added RHEL4.8, 2.6.29, 2.6.30 support | |
| - Added early support for AEL2020 phy based adapters | |
| - Added early support for AQ100x phy based adapters | |
| - Added early support for 2 ports pci-e gen2 adapters | |
| - Added Firmware 7.4 support | |
| - Fixed RHEL3.8 build | |
| 2.ERRATA | |
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| - N/A | |
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| Version : 1.2.1 | |
| Date : 03/17/2009 | |
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| 1.CHANGES | |
| ---------------------------------------- | |
| - Updated README | |
| - Fixed compilation error which occurred as a result of a Makefile bug | |
| 2.ERRATA | |
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| - N/A | |
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