From 8b313dc0ee25ab624bc69920c5a97969ba1d67d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Wise Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:33:22 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] cxgb3: ofed-1.5.1 release note update. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise --- cxgb3_release_notes.txt | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/cxgb3_release_notes.txt b/cxgb3_release_notes.txt index 61e45da..30feda5 100644 --- a/cxgb3_release_notes.txt +++ b/cxgb3_release_notes.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) CHELSIO T3 RNIC RELEASE NOTES - Dec 2009 + March 2010 The iw_cxgb3 and cxgb3 modules provide RDMA and NIC support for the @@ -8,13 +8,25 @@ Chelsio S series adapters. Make sure you choose the 'cxgb3' and 'libcxgb3' options when generating your ofed rpms. ============================================ -New for ofed-1.5 +New for ofed-1.5.1 ============================================ -- 7.7 Firmware. See below for more information on updating your RNIC -to the latest firmware. +- 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. -- Version 1.1.2 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. ============================================ Enabling Various MPIs @@ -247,8 +259,11 @@ msi - whether to use MSI or MSI-X. Default is 2. Updating Firmware: ============================================ -This release requires firmware version 7.7.0, and Protocol SRAM version -1.1.0. This firmware can be downloaded from http://service.chelsio.com. +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 +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: If your distro/kernel supports firmware loading, you can place the chelsio firmware and psram images in /lib/firmware/cxgb3, then unload and reload -- 2.41.0