Intel XL710 NVM updating and driver version

[Eggert, Lars]

On 2015-11-10, at 18:10, Steven Hartland <steven at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
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> Having spent 30mins searching for the FreeBSD utility to perform said update I'm hitting a dead end so looking for advice on where to find this?

No idea. I ended up booting into Linux to flash.

> While searching for this I found that the latest driver on Intel's site is 1.4.8 <https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25160/Network-Adapter-Driver-for-PCI-E-40-Gigabit-Network-Connections-under-FreeBSD->, in a file named 1.4.5 <https://downloadcenter.intel.com/downloads/eula/25160/Network-Adapter-Driver-for-PCI-E-40-Gigabit-Network-Connections-under-FreeBSD-?httpDown=https%3A%2F%2Fdownloadmirror.intel.com%2F25160%2Feng%2Fixl-1.4.5.tar.gz> and reporting 1.4.5 so it looks like the wrong version was uploaded on Intel's download site.

Yep, found that too.

> The driver in HEAD is only 1.4.3 so the next question is there a reason HEAD is behind?

No idea either.

If you're running -CURRENT, would you do me a favor and do a netperf run? I fail to get speeds over 5Gb/s, because it seems like TSO/LRO isn't in effect (although enabled).

Lars
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