[ewg] [PATCH] cxgb3: ofed-1.5.1 release note update.

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Thu Mar 18 08:33:22 PDT 2010


Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>
---

 cxgb3_release_notes.txt |   29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files 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




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