system environment/base

hp-netxtreme2 - HP NC-Series Broadcom 1/10 GbE Multifunction Drivers for Linux

Website: http://www.broadcom.com
License: GPL
Vendor: Broadcom Corporation
Description:
"This package contains the Broadcom NetXtreme II 1-Gigabit (bnx2) and 10-Gigabit (bnx2x) ethernet drivers."

Packages

hp-netxtreme2-7.4.25-2.src [2.1 MiB] Changelog by HP Linux SW Deliverables (2012-10-17):
- This package installs/updates the following driver versions:

  *** cnic v2.5.12e ***
  - Fixes a kernel panic under iSCSI out-of-order condition (Severity: Critical)
  - Fixes an issue where iSCSI does not resume after MTU change on bnx2x
    driven adapters (Severity: Medium)
  - Fixes a bnx2x assert due to corrupted TCP NOP instruction during iSCSI
    traffic (Severity: Medium)

  *** bnx2 v2.2.3e ***
  - Adds recovery logic to recover from PCI block reset during TX timeout
    (Severity: Medium)
  - Fixes an issue where wrong DMA address was being unmapped on IOMMU based
    systems on doing a reset during heavy traffic (Severity: Medium)
  
  *** bnx2x v1.74.17 ***
  - Adds support for HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 530T Adapter (Severity: Critical)
  - Display warnings when unsupported SFP modules are used (Severity: Minor)
  - Removed unsupported module parameter tx_switching (Severity: Minor)
  - Adds support for ethtool to be able to get and set hash settings
    (Severity: Minor)
  - Sets link and supported speeds appropriately for SFP (1G) optic module
    (Severity: Medium)
  - Adds support for SW timestamping in transmit and ethtool capability to
    query timestamp (Severity: Minor) 
  - Fixes ethtool -t error reporting issues (Severity: Medium)
  - Fixes ethtool -t failure during heavy traffic (Severity: Minor)
  - Fixes issue with ethtool displaying previous speed/duplex on link down
    (Severity: Minor)
  - Fixes a possible crash when doing ethtool -L with cnic up (Severity: Minor)
  - Fixes ethtool -A failure to change pause parameters correctly
    (Severity: Medium)
  - Fixes an issue that leads to kernel crash in low memory conditions either
    on driver unload, ifdown of interface or changing device parameters
    (Severity: Critical)
  - Fixes an issue on bringing up NC532x device with single MSI-X vector
    (Severity: Medium)
  - Fixes an issue with creating VLANs on RHEL6.3 (Severity: Critical)
  - Fixes an issue with driver load failure due to memory shortage in 
    multi-function mode (Severity: Critical)
  - Fixes a possible crash with ethtool -d on 530x devices (Severity: Medium)

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