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From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH dpdk v2] bnx2x: Update firmware versions
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 15:12:13 +1000
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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?

> 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
> 


-- 
Alexey