netdev - Re[2]: ethtool 3.5 released

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Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:36:20 +0900
From:	Naoto MATSUMOTO <n-matsumoto@...ura.ad.jp>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re[2]: ethtool 3.5 released


Hi, Ben. Thanks your reply for me.

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:41:23 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:

> >         Port: Twisted Pair
> 
> 40G twisted-pair, eh?

We are using this one(cable). 
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=cables

> >         PHYAD: 0
> >         Transceiver: internal
> >         Auto-negotiation: off
> >         MDI-X: Unknown
> >         Supports Wake-on: d
> >         Wake-on: d
> >         Current message level: 0x00000014 (20)
> >                                link ifdown
> >         Link detected: yes
> > 
> > 
> > Our 40GbE NIC Firmware/Dirver status are here.
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v1.5.8.3 (June 2012)
> > Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
> > Firmware Version: 2.10.800
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > And We were testing 10GbE(Intel) NIC and your 40GbE NIC in our lab
> > using ethtool with added some debug code.
> 
> I work for Solarflare, not Mellanox... and the patch adding 40G link
> modes came from Parav Pandit at Emulex.
> 
> [...]
> > It's firmware problem I thinks. But Just Information for you ;-)
> 
> Also, the 40G link mode flags were only just defined, so the driver
> probably has yet to be updated.
> 
> Ben.

I agree with you. and we'll wait for the MLX_GUY works ;-)

-- 
SAKURA Internet Inc. / Senior Researcher
Naoto MATSUMOTO <n-matsumoto@...ura.ad.jp>
SAKURA Research Center <http://research.sakura.ad.jp/>

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