Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
CHELSIO T3 RNIC RELEASE NOTES
- March 2010
+ September 2010
The iw_cxgb3 and cxgb3 modules provide RDMA and NIC support for the
'libcxgb3' options when generating your ofed rpms.
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-New for ofed-1.5.1
+New for ofed-1.5.2
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-- T3 Firmware bound with driver. Starting with ofed-1.5.1, the T3
-firmware is bound into the cxgb3 driver. When the driver is loaded,
-the firmware will be updated if needed. Thus there is no more need to
-download and manually load the firmware unless you are getting firmware
-newer that the version included in the cxgb3 driver.
-
-- 7.10.0 Firmware support.
-
-- Large user-mode CQ support. CQ depths up to 256K entries are now supported
-for user mode applications.
-
-- Large cluster fixes. The T3 firmware, cxgb3 drivers and library now
-scale to hundreds of MPI nodes. 128NP MVAPICH2 runs have been tested.
-
- Bug fixes. Various upstream bug fixes have been included in this
release.
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This release requires firmware version 7.10.0, and Protocol SRAM
-version 1.1.0. These versions are included in the ofed-1.5.1 release
+version 1.1.0. These versions are included in the ofed-1.5.2 release
and will be automatically loaded when the cxgb3 module is loaded and
the interface configured. To load later/newer versions of the firmware,
follow this procedure: