Re: [PATCH dpdk v2] bnx2x: Update firmware versions

["Mody, Rasesh" <Rasesh.Mody@cavium.com>]

Hi Ferruh,

> From: Ferruh Yigit [mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 9:01 AM
> To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>; Mody, Rasesh
> <Rasesh.Mody@cavium.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Patil, Harish <Harish.Patil@cavium.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH dpdk v2] bnx2x: Update firmware versions
> 
> On 4/29/2017 6:12 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > On 29/04/17 10:31, Mody, Rasesh wrote:
> >> Hi Alexey,
> >>
> >>> From: Ferruh Yigit [mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com]
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 2:18 AM
> >>>
> >>> On 4/26/2017 9:08 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >>>> Recent kernels/distros have updated firmware images, use them.
> >>>> In order to keep support of older distros (such as Fedora 19 or
> >>>> Ubuntu 14.04), this also tries fallback to an order firmware version.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> Changes:
> >>>> v2:
> >>>> * in addition to the very new firmware images, this adds fallback
> >>>> to some older firmware present in 3yo distros
> >>
> >> To my knowledge, latest kernel/distro have 7.2.51.0 firmware image
> currently being used by the BNX2X PMD.
> >
> > I could not find any free distro with this firmware version, what
> > latest distro does have this firmware?
> 
> I am taking Rasesh's answer as no FW update required and because of not
> having any other comment updating patch status as rejected.

We found CentOS-7, Fedora 24, RHEL 7.x as well as latest SLES 12.x have this firmware. In our PMD documentation, we mention that if the firmware image is not available in any distro, user is suggested to download it from qlogic.com website.

Note that mere loadable firmware image is insufficient testing for updating to new firmware image. It needs to be backed by full functional testing (including SRIOV VF). We think, functional testing with updated firmware would require PMD changes. Currently, we don't have any plans to change the PMD for FW update.

Thanks!
-Rasesh
> 
> >
> >> Did you test BNX2X PMD with updated and fallback firmware images? If
> yes, how was it tested and did you encounter any issue? Did you try SRIOV
> VF with these firmware versions?
> >
> > I checked it can load the firmware and that's it, I could not proceed
> > any further due to other unrelated reasons.
> >
> >> Thanks!
> >> -Rasesh
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Alexey,
> >>>
> >>> CC'ing maintainers.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for the patch, please CC maintainers in your patches.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> ferruh
> >>
> >
> >