netdev - Re: [PATCH linux-firmware 1/1] bnx2x: update fw to 7.8.2

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:37:38 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@...adcom.com>
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ariel Elior <ariele@...adcom.com>,
	Eilon Goldstein <eilong@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-firmware 1/1] bnx2x: update fw to 7.8.2

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:25:09AM +0200, Yuval Mintz wrote:
> This new firmware fixes several minor bugs:
>  1. In switch dependent mode, DCB priority was used to override inner vlan
>     priority.
>  2. In switch dependent  mode, inner vlan was added in case of DCB priority
>     even if outer vlan was present.
>  3. In switch dependent mode, outer vlan was overridden by DCB priority when
>     working in STATIC COS mode while inner vlan was present.
>  4. iSCSI - under heavy iSCSI traffic, when TCP out-of-order condition
>     occurred, it was possible for the connection to close and recover.
>  5. iSCSI - connections on-chip TCP establishment might have failed.
>  6. iSCSI - out-of-order isles might have caused on-chip TCP connections
>     to fail in their graceful termination.
>  7. iSCSI - there was a theoretical race in which an RST packet sent from
>     pure-ack queue in specific timing could cause a credit-return overflow.
>  8. iSCSI - not all packets were completed on a forward channel.
>  9. DCB - fixed for 4-port devices; Until now, wrong credit counters were
>     used, causing dcb to fail.
> 10. Fixed false parity reported in CAM memories when operating near -5% on
>     the 1.0V core supply.
> 11. ETS default settings are set to fairness between traffic classes (rather
>     than strict priority), and uses the same chip receive buffer configuration
>     for both PFC and pause.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Goldstein <eilong@...adcom.com>
> ---
> Please consider adding this new FW into the FW tree.
[...]

Applied, thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
                                                              - Albert Camus

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