[OmniOS-discuss] (From illumos) Request for e1000g and igb testing for latest parts

[Dan McDonald]

Hello OmniOS fans!

Robert Mustacchi from Joyent has updated e1000g & igb with more modern code from Intel.

If you are an OmniOS person looking to try this out, and need help updating either your e1000g or igb, please let me know via the OmniOS discussion list, or via unicast mail.  The binaries he supplies below should just *DROP IN* on any OmniOS revision.  I'll be trying this out on 64-bit e1000g (for 82579LM or 85274L) in bloody and maybe 64-bit igb in r151012 (for I210) respectively.

NOTE:  Use the non-debug bits unless you've built an entire BE around a DEBUG illumos-omnios build.

My advice for those who want to try is:

	beadm create new-intel
	beadm mount new-intel /mnt
	<place appropriate new 64-bit binaries in /mnt/kernel/drv/amd64/{igb,e1000g}>
	beadm umount new-intel
	beadm activate new-intel
	reboot

You can and should re-activate the existing BE when you're done testing.

Happy Intel Ethernetting!
Dan


> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: February 27, 2015 at 11:17:11 AM EST
> From: "Robert Mustacchi via illumos-developer" <developer at lists.illumos.org>
> To: illumos Developer <developer at lists.illumos.org>, "smartos-discuss at lists.smartos.org" <smartos-discuss at lists.smartos.org>
> Subject: Re: [developer] Request for e1000g and igb testing for latest parts
> Reply-To: "Robert Mustacchi" <rm at joyent.com>
> 
> On 2/27/15 7:51 , Robert Mustacchi via illumos-developer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Various Broadwell and related hardware is using newer e1000g parts, I
>> took the opportunity to sync up our common code to get support for them
>> and some newer igb parts, being more I218 and I210 branded parts. As
>> such, I have a newer igb and e1000g driver and would appreciate some
>> broader community testing on both the older devices and if you happen to
>> have one of the previously unsupported devices, some of the newer ones.
>> 
>> If you test it, can you please let me know what part you're using. You
>> can get the information from prtconf -d.
>> 
>> Here's all the pieces:
>> 
>> e1000g i386:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/drv/e1000g
>> e1000g amd64:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/drv/amd64/e1000g
>> igb i386:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/drv/igb
>> igb amd64:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/drv/amd64/igb
>> 
>> smartos platform:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/smartos/platform-20150223T225455Z.tgz
>> smartos iso:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/smartos/platform-20150223T225455Z.iso
>> smartos usb:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/smartos/platform-20150223T225455Z.usb.bz2
>> 
>> sdc platform:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/sdc/platform-20150223T225545Z.tgz
>> 
>> webrev:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/webrevs/e1000g/index.html
>> 
>> patch:
>> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/e1000g.patch
> 
> It was kindly pointed out that I had provided debug-build drivers. Here
> are links to the non-debug variants:
> 
> e1000g i386:
> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/drv-nd/e1000g
> e1000g amd64:
> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/drv-nd/amd64/e1000g
> igb i386:
> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/drv-nd/igb
> igb amd64:
> https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/i218/drv-nd/amd64/igb
> 
> Thanks again,
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
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