Re: ethtool 3.5 released

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:27 +0900, Naoto MATSUMOTO wrote:

Dear Ben.

FYI(For Your Information)
This is Naoto MATSUMOTO, Senior Researcher, SAKURA Internet.

We tried ethtool 3.5 on 40GbE NIC(Mellanox), it's result here.
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# ./ethtool --version
ethtool version 3.5

# ./ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: No
        Supports auto-negotiation: No
        Advertised link modes:  10000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No
        Speed: 40000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair

40G twisted-pair, eh?

        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: off
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000014 (20)
                               link ifdown
        Link detected: yes


Our 40GbE NIC Firmware/Dirver status are here.
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Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v1.5.8.3 (June 2012)
Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
Firmware Version: 2.10.800
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And We were testing 10GbE(Intel) NIC and your 40GbE NIC in our lab
using ethtool with added some debug code.

I work for Solarflare, not Mellanox... and the patch adding 40G link
modes came from Parav Pandit at Emulex.

[...]

It's firmware problem I thinks. But Just Information for you ;-)

Also, the 40G link mode flags were only just defined, so the driver
probably has yet to be updated.

Ben.

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