Emulex NIC (be2net) Device Driver for SLES15 - 12.0.1261.0 - Release 18B (For Sles)



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                      Emulex NIC Device Driver for Linux
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Device Driver Version: 12.0.1261.0
Supported On: Lenovo System x Rack and Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - None

Incremental Interoperability:
 - Purley System Support
 - RHEL7 Update 3 Support
 - SLES12 SP2 Support

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 11.4.1186.0
Supported On: Lenovo System x Rack and Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - Emulex be2net inbox driver delays the failover in bond after getting unrecoverable error in adapter (204427)
 - LPNIC driver installation failed through lpnic_install.sh installation script file (204826)

Incremental Interoperability:
 - RHEL7 Update 4 Support
 - SLES12 SP3 Support

Known Issues:
- None

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Firmware Version: 11.2.1193.31
Supported On: Lenovo System x Rack and Flex

Problems Fixed:
 * Support asymmetric RX/TX queues
 * Enhance be2net to support PASSTHRU mode of SET_HSW_CONFIG cmd on BE3

Incremental Interoperability:
 - RHEL7 Update 3 Support
 - SLES12 SP2 Support

Known Issues:
- Beginning with software release 11.2, Emulex LightPulse adapters and 
   OneConnect adapters have independent software kits. The "Broadcom Software 
   Kit Migration Guide" document provides special instructions and 
   considerations for using the driver kits for LightPulse and OneConnect 
   adapters.  https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/12378907

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Device Driver Version: 11.1.152.18
Supported On: Lenovo System x Rack and Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - Perf enhancement - Added support to switch off/on CPU power and P states to
   perf_tune_benet.sh script (184130)

Incremental Interoperability:
 - None

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 11.0.232.0
Supported On: Lenovo System x Rack and Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - SRIOV 4port: Dmesg shows Max VF's count as zero for PF's except PF0 (187192)
 - Fixed several issues related to SRIOV

Incremental Interoperability:
 - Support for Secure FW download feature

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 10.6.228.32
Supported On: Lenovo System x Rack and Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - Not able to collect OneCapture Logs on RHEL 7.1 OS (183840)
 - Fixed race condition where repeated link toggle in promiscuous mode causes
   firmware to lock up (183575)
 - Fixed a memory leak in case of async firmware commands (184729)

Incremental Interoperability:
 - SLES 12.1
 - RHEL 6.7 & 7.2
 - Support for Secure FW download feature

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 10.6.228.9
Supported On: Lenovo System x Rack and Flex

Problems Fixed:
 -

Incremental Interoperability:
 -

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 10.4.301.0
Supported On: System x Rack

Problems Fixed:
 - Variety of performance improvements on small packet and UDP traffic

Incremental Interoperability:
 - Add support in perf_tune_benet.sh to change the processor C-state
   dynamically
 - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 10.3.142.0
Supported On: Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - None

Incremental Interoperability:
 - SLES 12
 - RHEL 6.6, 7.1
 - Lenovo branded versions of formerly IBM branded products

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 10.3.11.0
Supported On: Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - None

Incremental Interoperability:
 - Grantley based ITE

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 10.2.363.0
Supported On: System x and BladeCenter

Problems Fixed:
 - Multiple performance improvements in virtualized environments (SR-IOV,UMC)
 - Resetting Transparent Vlan to Default Vlan is not working
 - Cleanup ethtool set settings code
 - ARI on IBM x3650M4: All functions are not displayed in Linux

Incremental Interoperability:
 - Grantley Rack Servers

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 10.2.261.0
Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - Provide link state control for VFs
 - ethtool shows port as fibre though copper cable is connected.
 - Multi channel config should be determined via port resource descriptor
 - Showing WoL supported in ethtool for BE3 where it is not supported
 - be2net driver crash when umc enabled
 - ip link show command shows vlan for vfs although vlan creation is failed on
   the vfs
 - Emulex be2net driver does not support IOMMU pass through mode

Incremental Interoperability:
 - PCI ARI support

Known Issues:
 - None

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Device Driver Version: 10.0.800.0
Supported On: IBM System x

Problems Fixed:
 - Low bi-di throughput seen on 1g ports of HS-23 LOM
 - Multiple performance improvements
 - Bonding driver takes approx 20 seconds to be ready

Incremental Interoperability:
 - RHEL 5.10
 - RHEL 6.5
 - XE-102 and XE-104 ASIC (OCx14xxx)
 - Support for set and get channels ethtool operation

Known Issues:
 - SR-IOV is supported with the following Linux distributions:
      * RHEL 6.4 and above 64-bit with KVM
      * SLES11 SP3 and above 64-bit with KVM

   NOTE: Guest operating system support is dependent on the Emulex driver
   version installed in the guest.

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Device Driver Version: 4.6.267.4
Supported On: IBM System x, BladeCenter, and Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - Under certain conditions, performance issues may be seen with multi-channel
   in RHEL6.4 KVM configurations
 - Under certain conditions, performance issues may be seen with multi-channel
   in RHEL6.4 SR-IOV configurations
 - SR-IOV configuration section of the Linux NIC Driver Documentation has been
   modified to improve clarity

Incremental Interoperability:
 - S3 Resume on IBM Flex
 - SLES 11.3 on IBM System x and BladeCenter

Known Issues:
 - SR-IOV is supported with the following Linux distributions:
      * RHEL 6.3 and 6.4 64-bit with KVM
      * SLES11 SP2 and SP3 64-bit with KVM

   NOTE: Guest operating system support is dependent on the Emulex driver
   version installed in the guest.

 - Use of SR-IOV with the XEN hypervisor is not supported at this time.

 - Use of SR-IOV with the KVM hypervisor requires the use of macvlan network
   interfaces.

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Device Driver Version: 4.6.148.0
Supported On: IBM System x and BladeCenter

Problems Fixed:
 - Ethernet performance issues in a variety of workloads
 - VFs are not displayed after driver re-load when is VFs attached to VM
 - vLAN tagging in Switch Agnostic vNIC mode

Incremental Interoperability:
 - RHEL 5.9
 - RHEL 6.4
 - Network performance varies with workload. An ethernet driver tuning script
  and instructions is now included with the be2net driver.
 - Switch Independent Mode within hypervisor OS's

Known Issues:
 - Multi-channel is not supported in RHEL5.x XEN. This is a kernel limitation
 - Under certain conditions, performance issues may be seen with multi-channel
   in RHEL6.4 KVM configurations
 - Under certain conditions, performance issues may be seen with multi-channel
   in RHEL6.4 SR-IOV configurations
 - SR-IOV is not supported with RHEL5.x XEN

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Device Driver Version: 4.4.180.0
Supported On: IBM Flex

Device Driver Version: 4.2.389.0
Supported On IBM System x and BladeCenter

Problems Fixed:
 - Unloading the driver hangs the system after running IPv6 traffic
 - Link status messages cleaned up when in Switch Agnostic mode
 - Miscellaneous network performance issues to improve throughput
 - Miscellaneous problems related to SRIOV to improve usability
 - Ethtool wol command displays wol enabled even when disabled
 - Ethtool speed reported as 10000Mb/s for disabled devices in Switch Agnostic
  mode

Incremental Interoperability:
 - RHEL6.3 GA Kernel
 - Increase default B/W for SRIOV vf's to 10Gb from 100Mb

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Device Driver Version: 4.1.440.0
Supported On: IBM System x and BladeCenter

Device Driver Version: 4.1.422.5
Supported On: IBM Flex

Problems Fixed:
 - Ethtool information missing with newest version of be2net

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Device Driver Version: 4.1.413.0
Supported On: IBM System x and BladeCenter

Problems Fixed:
 - WOL changes for Linux NIC driver as mentioned in Bug# 24543
 - SR IOV   UE when attempt to do multiple (3 times) driver load/unload
 - Speed is 10000Mb/s for Disabled devices in UMC Mode
 - Incorrect Duplex value is shown for unconnected port of NC552m in Rhel6.1
   32bit
 - SLES 11 SP2 GMC: Enable support for Lnx NIC Driver
 - SRIOV: When VGT is configured for a VF, ip link show doesn't display it
   for the VF configured.
 - RHEL 5.8 GA: Enable support for Lnx NIC Driver
 - ip link command with vlan = 4095 has toggling effect
 - ip link command with vlan =0 should remove guest VGT privilege

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Device Driver Version: 4.1.334.39
Supported On: IBM System x and BladeCenter

Problems Fixed:
 - SR-IOV: Can't load be2net driver in a VM after the VM has been rebooted
 - SR-IOV: Unload PF driver with VF driver loaded causes system instability
 - SR-IOV: VF MAC always gets Emulex OUI
 - SR-IOV: Partition the limited per port VLAN entries across VFs and PFs
 - Non Member VLAN packets not received in interface promiscuous mode in BE3
 - Avoid CQ full condition in HW
 - be2net: use RX_FILTER cmd to program multicast addresses
 - account for skb allocation failures in ethtool stats
 - Support 60 second delay to Linux NIC driver to allow FAT dump completion
   on recovery from EEH
 - Link status is up [ethtool and OCM] when the bandwidth is assign 0 for
   UMC configuration
 - Remove msix module parameter
 - Use V1 version of COMMON_NTWK_LINK_STATUS_QUERY for Lancer.
 - Emulex: Ethtool failing to update FW
 - Emulex: Panic in be2net driver in SLES11-SP2-B7 on adapter
 - TCP ACKs from different connections are getting received in single queue
 - Multicast filtering feature not working on PPC
 - Exit of mcast promiscous mode not working
 - VLAN promiscous mode cannot be set on Lancer
 - Can't communicate after changing MAC address via VLAN interface
 - Improper memory accounting in received packets
 - WOL changes for Linux NIC driver as mentioned in bug
 - Transparent VLAN tagging feature not working in SR-IOV

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Device Driver Version: 2.103.397.0
Supported On: IBM System x and BladeCenter

 - Initial Release

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