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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)
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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 : 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)
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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 : 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)
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- 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
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- 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)
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-  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
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- Fixes for cxgbtool
- Fix for link flap issue
- Fix for VLAN on top of bonding in TOE mode.



2.ERRATA (Open Issues)
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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
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- 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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