Intel Networking Adapter/Device Linux Firmware

Change History

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Intel v29.3 Network FW Update Release for Linux
Release date = 07/25/2024
Package Version: net.e800.da4.ocp-4.60-1.3684.0-2
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CONTENTS
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1.0  Change history
2.0  Web information and support phone Number
3.0  Notices and trademarks
4.0  Disclaimer


1.0  Change history
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This FW update package supports Lenovo E810 Meadow Flat E810-DA4 OCP 3.0 product ONLY.

This release includes the following updates:
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Versions:

1) The following E810 images are at NVM 4.60 level.
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           Device                  Boot ROM (Option ROM)  Firmware (Etrack ID)
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    ThinkSystem E810-DA4 OCP       1.3684.0               8001F4F5

2) NVMUPDATE tool updated to 1.42.8.0 to support new config version.

New OS Support:
  - Support RHEL 8.10/9.4
  - Support SLES 15.6

E810
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New features:
  - Disable Optical Module Laser when Link/Port is disabled

  - GET_LLDP type command : get all ports LLDP information

  - Disabling of port 0 (as long it¡¯s not associated with PF 0).

  - Use Rx Loss to detect cable disconnect from Module

  - Expanding i2c write handling to enable 4 bytes


Bug fixes:
  - IPS: 00860421 - [Oahu_AU_SIT_MQT2]Run MQT2 test ,XCC report E810-DA4
    OCP link speed degraded from 16 GT/s to 8.0 GT/s.

    Desciption:
    XCC report E810-DA4 OCP link speed degraded from 16 GT/s to 8.0 GT/s when
    run MQT2 test. The issue occurred after 5 times of AC power cycle.

    Fix:
    The target PCIe PHY firmware has optimized on Receiver equalization
    recipe to handle low loss channel condition over PCIe training process.

  - IPS: 00815616 - [Kahauale_BBFV_HCT]E810-DA4 NIC port didn't disable
    after changed the "Active Physical" setting on uEFI menu.

    Description:
    Port 3 of the E810-xxvDA4 adapters was always enabled no matter
    whatever  "active physical functions" was set to. but the customer
    expects to have port 3 disabled  when "active physical functions" is
    set to "PF0, PF1 and PF2",  "PF0 and PF1" or "PF0 only"

    Fix:
    Change the setting of "Active Physical functions", and corresponding
    help display text

  - IPS: 00841566/00846731 - E810-DA4 adapter's device name doesn't display
    as expected

    Description:
    The DA4 adapter's device name under UEFI setup is different from the
    one in the UCM.

    Fix:
    The efi driver changes to display as the customer wants.

  - RAMON specific workaround implemented in DreadnoughtLake scripts in
    case of caui4 no FEC links, was modified being applied only when outer
    phy is RAMON (and not Parkvale).

  - The NetworkDeviceFunction.MTUSize property is changed to reflect the
    current OS defaults before the user configures specific value.

  - Fixed a rare timing issue of nc-si oem command: plug-out optics and
    plug-in again, BMC can NOT get temperature by reason code 0x5089.

  - Removed the need for EMPR after temperature fatal threshold is
    exceeded.

  - When link goes down, recovered clock switches to an incorrect
    frequency, and the external DPLL shifts the system timing.

  - FW incorrectly mapped NC-SI channels to Physical ports when responding
    to the Intel OEM NC-SI command 0x26 (no other command affected).

  - Unsupported SMBus write command caused HW to trigger improperly handled
    FW behavior, which blocked subsequent SMBus writes other than MCTP.

  - If user configured 1G and needs to go back to 10G, not able to do so.

  - Fixed PTP Time Error to be under 5 ns when running PTP in Boundary Mode
    between PF with PKVL PHY and PF w/o PKVL PHY.


Release net.e800.da4.ocp-4.50-1.3616.0-0 includes the following updates:
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New OS Support:
  - Support RHEL8.9/9.3

E810
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New features:
  - Get SFF Info NC-SI OEM Command

  - Disable FW LLDP agent in and allow LLDP frames to be sent and received
    in the VF.

  - Supports Log of MNG packets for debugging purposes.

  - Supports PLDM Type 4s for FRU data.

  - The E810-CQDA2T adapter now supports 2x2x25 Gbps configuration.

  - Supports reduced PTP jitter by improved timestamp accuracy and Port
    timer compensation.

  - E810-XXVDA4T and E810-CQDA2T now support DPLL updates.

  - Supports shorter DPLL lock time

  - Force FW LOG to uART even if PF Driver disables

  - Option to disable PLDM FRU backup data response when NVM FRU
    manufacturing data is not available


Bug fixes:
  - IPS: 00788617 - [PA_SI Agile 23-1_USI_SDV_Pass 1_HW_SE450] Qtester
    shows "VPD FW check failed (Error)

    Description:
    1. Power on system and boot into WS2022.
    2. Setup Qtester to run 72hrs AC cycle test.
       after AC power on, the BMC software calls PLDM_GetFirmwareParameters
       and it sometimes (may be once after 300 AC power cycles) returns
       Completion Code = 0x01(PLDM Base: Error).

    Fix:
    Firmware now returns PLDM_ERROR_NOT_READY Completion Code instead of
    generic 0x01(PLDM Base: Error) when firmware is not fully ready after
    platform reboot.

  - When plugging DAC cables into two ports at the same time on Clifton
    Channel, it is possible for one port to be unable to establish link.

  - To have the metrics data shown on the respective port, map the port to
    MAC address before accessing counter registers.

  - Resolved an issue where 0x5089 was returned for command
    get_sff_temperature when only port1 had optics of E810.

  - PLDM T2 NumericSensors didn't send async event when any threshold was crossed.

  - NCSI1.2 command Get Transceiver Temperature(0x4A) returned incorrect
    temperatures due to wrong endianness.

  - Module temp thresholds check running too early causes 0 return, which
    is taken as valid and shuts down port.

  - GetSensorReading command returns error code 0x1 in case when plug
    temperature is higher than 78C (0x4E).

  - E810 doesn't support non-contiguous TCs within the LLDP configuration.
    It may result in a hang situation if receiving such LLDP packets during
    power-on stage. A timeout was added to the firmware polling loop to
    trigger a core reset which clears the hang and allows the device to
    continue functioning.

  - E810 4.3 NVMs use a common map, which introduces a change (new entries)
    to an immediate TLV in PFA. FW fails to interpret the new entries in
    this specific TLV, which results in adding those new entries again and
    again upon every update from the former 4.3 image to 4.3 and above.
    Eventually, due to the lack of space in that TLV, any normal attempt to
    update will fail.

  - NetworkDeviceFunction.Ethernet.PermanentMACaddress should stay with
    factory setting if it has been programmed. Read relevant section from
    Factory Settings.

  - PLDM Type4 showing incorrect default Part Number

  - NIC disappeared after NVM signature corruption

  - Incorrect log entry format for timestamp value

  - Get Link Status command does not return External Device Power Class
    value

  - Previously, the PLDM Type 5 Command "Activate Firmware" could
    potentially cause a subsequent PLDM Type 2 event.

  - Resolved an issue where during an ActiveFirmware request coming from
    Update Agent (BMC) PLDM Type2, a PlatformEventMessage was generated by
    the Firmware Device (Network Adapter). As a result, the response did
    not happen, and Update Agent (BMC) treated it as Update Failed.

  - Fixed an issue where the UEFI HII interface could not save the setting
    of virtualization mode.

  - Previously, in PLDM Platform Monitoring and Control, the
    sensor_data_size field of SFP thermal sensor PDR was containing wrong
    value: unsigned instead of signed char/byte.

  - Previously, during ActiveFirmware request coming from Update Agent
    (BMC) PLDM Type2 PlatformEventMessage was generated by our Firmware
    Device (Network Adapter). As a result, response did not happen and
    Update Agent (BMC) treated it as Update Failed.

  - Firmware now acquires semaphore before "Load Factory Settings to PFA"
    and releases it immediately after.

  - Previously, when BMC subscribed to PLDM events, the NIC issued two
    equivalent redfish events for the different origins (Network Adapter
    and Port) caused by the same trigger (link state change for given
    port). This issue caused unnecessary redfish event flood. The
    resolution was to change firmware design in order to avoid sending
    multiple redfish events for the same trigger.

  - Previously, in Network Controller Sideband Interface after
    EnableChannel command invoked, the OEM command IANA=0x02A2 GetLldp
    occasionally returned LLDP TLVs with missing mandatory values for
    chassis_id and port_id.

  - Set packageID SDP to correct values for E810-CQDA1.

  - Now the patched property of NetworkDeviceFunction.Ethernet.MACAddress
    is persistent during reboot. Users can restore to PermanentMACAddress
    with ResetSettingsToDefaults.


Release net.e800.da4.ocp-4.30-1.3518.0-2 includes the following updates:
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New features:
  - Support RHEL8.8/9.2, SLES 15.5
  - Support NC-SI 1.2 thermal monitoring commands.

Bug fixes:
  - IPS: 00833367 - E810-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port OCP Ethernet Adapter cannot
    enable SRIOV in UEFI

    Description:
    SRIOV can not be enabled in UEFI

    Fix:
    Added logic to support on for all PFs

  - Resolved an issue were an incorrectly interpreted BDF during MCTP
    Endpoint discovery led to sending PLDM events to a non-existing device.

  - Resolved an issue where the id field of Event BEJ was changed from the
    originating resource Id as the resource number to a deferred binding
    resource Id.

  - A "Cannot initialize port" failure occurs when running nvmupdate
    1.39.32.6 in SLES15SP3, because the tool doesn't support ioctl.

  - A SyncE-related transaction between driver and device may cause a PHY
    loading failure, during NVM upgrade. Subsequently, PHY errors are
    reported to UEFI driver during reboot, resulting in a BIOS hang.

  - Resolved an issue where E810-XXV-4T didn't expose one of the On Chip
    thermal sensors via PLDM. The sensor was not visible via BMC.

  - Resolved an issue where CVL4.1 and CVL4.2 had a problem with Recovery
    Clock configuration on port 4, in the case of fully reversed PF<>MAC
    mapping. Other configurations were not impacted.

  - Resolved an issue where the NC-SI "Reset Channel" (0x05) command was
    not reverting the port link state change made by for Real Time
    Comprehensive Embedded Management "Network Port Control' (0x34)
    command.

  - Resolved an issue where, during communication via PLDM Type 6, FW did
    not move the operation to the failed state and did not return
    INVALID_DATA. Instead, it returned UNSUPPORTED in the case of an
    invalid payload.

  - Reverted an incorrectly added strict handling of the payload-less action.

  - Resolved an issue where the Network Device and Port Metrics are
    disabled due to an BMC issue and missing support on BMC side.

  - Resolved an issue where in order to change the Forward Error Correction
    setting in the UEFI HII the user needs to change the Media detection
    setting, save the changes, and then change the FEC setting.

  - Previously, promiscuous mode did not see all packets; it only saw those
    packets arriving over the wire (that is, not sent from the same
    physical function (PF) but a different virtual function (VF).

  - Resolved an issue where during the second time of a POST operation,
    NetworkAdapter.ResetSettingsToDefault failed with the BMC reporting
    "Internal Server Error."

  - Resolved an issue when both RMII-based transport (RBT) and Management
    Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) were enabled, and PT was enabled on
    RBT, then OEM command 0x26 (config LLDP) was being rejected from NC-SI
    over MCTP with reason code 0x5081.

  - Corrected an issue where updating an NVM image of E810 could result in
    a "PHY NVM is not supported in devlink" warning message.

  - Previously, E8102CQDA2 adapter showed Linkcap width as x16.


Release net.e800.da4.ocp-4.22-1.3357.0-4 includes the following updates:
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New features:
  - Support RHEL8.7/9.1, ESXi 8.0

  - OROM update support in Recovery mode

    Description:
    With this implementation, the NVM host update flow in recovery mode
    should be the same as in the operational mode.

  - Defines the IID (Instance IDs) field in the NC-SI packet's header,
    which is used to match responses to requests and to differentiate
    between new and retried commands.

    Description:
    According to the spec, If the IID of the current command is the same as
    the previous command's IID, the command is a "Retried Command" and the
    FW shall return the response of previous command (should be done
    without re-executing the command). When the IID is different than from
    the previous command, the command is executed.

    The NC-SI spec is unclear on if the incoming commands IID is compared
    to the IID of the previous command received on the same channel,
    package or device. This feature defines a transfer to maintaining a
    single buffer for the last NC-SI command received on the device per
    transmitting interface.

  - Add FC-FEC(CL74) support with optical transceiver 25G-SR

  - NVMUpdate - only access devices from config file

    Description:
    The affected component shall only access devices (read/write flash or
    registers) listed in config file that match the following criteria:
        * if device in config file contains: DEVICE and VENDOR all devices
          with specified device ID and vendor ID will be accessed;
        * if device in config file contains: DEVICE, VENDOR, SUBDEVICE,
          SUBVENDOR all devices with specified 4partID will be accessed,
        * if device in config file contains: DEVICE, VENDOR, SUBDEVICE,
          SUBVENDOR, REVISION all devices with specified 4partID and
          specific revision will be accessed.

    Device not listed in config file (do not match the criteria above)
    shall be marked as "Update not available' in interactive mode.

  - NVMUpdate - OROM update in recovery

    Description:
    If the device is in recovery mode and has the capability of supporting
    for OROM update in recovery mode. it can be updated OROM either from
    NVM image or from separate file (FLB).

  - RoCEv2 LAG

  - FEC auto-detect for CVL LR/SR mode

    Description:
    Only valid FEC modes will be attempted based on the media and PHY type.

  - Enable hardware arbitration

  - IPS: 00675913 - FEC Configuration through UEFI HII for 25G CVL adapters


Bug fixes:
  - IPS: 00796141 - E810 fails to link with 10/25Gb SFP28 connect to
    adapter and 10Gb SFP+ connected

    Description:
    Connect Lenovo 10/25Gb SFP28 to E810, Lenovo 10Gb SFP+ to switch (CISCO 9K)
    Link fails to come up.

    Fix:
    Change the preserved "LinkDefaultOverrides" fields in the NVM image so
    that the settings in the NVM images make the firmware to try all the
    FEC modes during the link training.

  - IPS: 00736066 - [PA_IO Agile-Sprint202209_BDC_Storage_SR655] E810-DA2
    OCP ShareNIC cannot obtain DHCP IP under SR655

    Description:
    BMC failed getting an IP address on the sharenic port of E810-xxvDA2
    OCP via DHCP

    Fix:
    Use proper packageID SDP settings for SDP0 and SDP1

  - IPS: 00735574 - [PA_QUR 22C_BDC_SDV_FW_AMD1P_UEFI][RMK-5883]E810-DA4
    OCP Ethernet Adapter cannot obtain DHCP IP

    Destination:
    E810-DA4 OCP Ethernet Adapter cannot obtain DHCP IP.

    Fix:
    In implementation, use different variables to identify VSI in different
    context.

  - Both ports are loosing link randomly after dcb-map change

    Destination:
    The E810 adapter might experience an adapter-wide reset (all ports)
    when the DCBx willing configuration change (in firmware managed mode)
    propagated from the switch removes a TC that was RDMA enabled. This
    typically occurs when removing a TC associated with UP0 because it's
    the default UP that RDMA based it's configuration on. The reset results
    in a temporary loss in connectivity as the adapter re-initializes.

    Fix:
    FW changes along with changes in SW to allow for RDMA to disable
    QueueSets before suspending the removed TCs from the scheduler tree.


Release net.e800.da4.ocp-4.01-1.3282.0-10 includes the following updates:
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New features:
  - Support Windows 11
  - Support RHEL8.6/9.0, SLES 15SP4
  - Support scalable IOV feature (S-IOV) on the 4th Gen Intel® Xeon®
    Scalable Processor with the following drivers and OS:
    o ice 1.9.11 or later
    o iavf 4.5.3 or later
    o RHEL 7.9 and 8.5
    o SLES 12.5 and 15.3
    Note: Please refer to document for more details.


Bug fixes:
  - IPS: 00665409 - [IO_Tatlow_BBFV[UEFI] Intel E810-DA2 PCIE Ethernet
    Adapter changes do not take effect in network device.

    Description:
    During POST, in UEFI setup, set "Active Physical Functions" to "PF0"
    and save. However, it will still be set to "All" after reboot.

    Fix:
    Added a check to ensure only PF0 is used during HII value set.

  - IPS: 00673260 - E810 OCP adapter fails to link on D-Link switch but
    E810 PCIe adapter is able to establish link

    Description:
    With the same setup, E810 PCIe adapter links up, but E810 OCP adapter
    can't link up.

    Fix:
    Added new section in NVM to match the requirement and bring up link
    correctly.

  - IPS: 00688647 - BSOD seen on E810 ICEA driver when using SRIOV/RDMA

    Description:
    A customer has SR645 servers in a cluster running Windows 2019 Hyper-V.
    with SRIOV and RDMA. Randomly the server crashes with a BSOD.

    Fix:
    Updated driver to use correct lock and set correct status of queues in
    passive level thread


  - IPS: 00711180 - E810-DA2 has no Share NIC feature
    IPS: 00733937 - [PA_Bona_OOB_SDV_USI_SO] Unable to display XCC Shared
    port of Intel E810 Network OCP under UEFI BMC Network Setting page

    Description:
    No Shared option and only Dedicated in the field of Network Interface
    Port.

    Fix:
    Uses correct packageID definition in NVM image.


Release: 02/11/2022
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New adapters:
  - Intel E810-DA4 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
  - Intel E810-DA4 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter
  - Intel E810-DA2 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port Internal Lock OCP Ethernet Adapter

New features:
  - 8x10/2x100 PSM4 Link Management Support
    Description:
    Support for multiple port options (2x100, 8x10) with external PHY

  - Control thermals on SFF modules
    Description:
    Proper logic control for thermals on SFF modules, including a valid /
    invalid thermal Measurement and valid / invalid thermal threshold.

  - Allow separate FC Configuration
    Description:
    Support differential configuration of Flow Control for Rx and Tx.

  - CWDM SFP Optic Support

  - Driver Start/Stop, Disable/Reset Cmdlet and configuration FW Logging on
    Windows
    Description:
    Improvements to firmware log files from customers to show more detailed
    information by adding cmdlets making it easier to start and stop
    logging to a log file, disable/reset logging levels for all modules.
    It only applies to Windows OS

  - Align Lenovo AIM Firmware Information 2 version display in UEFI HII
    with PLDM changes
    Description:
    Lenovo requests that UEFI HII portion which implements Lenovo AIM
    formset shall display the same version information.

  - Added support for Intel PSM4 optical module

  - Added ADQ rules results in allocating Recipes, which are limited
    resources that are shared across all PFs

  - RDE Port Schema Support
    Description:
    Replace the deprecated NetworkPort schema based resources with new Port
    schema based resources. Additionally, support Port.Reset action.

  - RDE PCIeFunction FunctionID Property
    Description:
    Support the FunctionId property in the PCIeFunction schema

Bug fixes:
  - After RDE Operation Kill port to phy update isn't available
    Description:
    After RDE OperationKill, port 0 isn't available to execute phy update.

    Fix:
    Add phy access flag clear after operation kill.

  - Health Status Code 0x511 not generated
    Description:
    Health Status Code 0x511 not generated if new NetList is unsigned
    during update, which results in no failure info.

    Fix:
    Added health status report in the needed fail flows.

  - Following a firmware update and reboot/power cycle on the Intel
    Ethernet CQDA2 Adapter, Port 1 is displaying NO-CARRIER and is not
    functional.

  - Added a state machine to the thermal threshold activity so that when
    the switch page fails, it tries again from the same state.

  - FW not allow link if module not supported in lenient mode.

  - RDE Device is reporting a RevisionID property of PCIeFunctions schema
    as 0x00, instead 0x02.

  - The RDE device reports its status as Starting (with low power), even
    though it is in standby mode.


2.0 Web Sites and Support Phone Number
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