Bug 634325

Summary:	[Broadcom 5.6 bug] tg3: Incorrect FW version displayed and FW handshake update
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Matt Carlson <mcarlson>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John Feeney <jfeeney>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	5.6	CC:	andriusb, benlu, cward, gideonn, hjia, jfeeney, mcarlson
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	OtherQA
Target Release:	5.6
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Matt Carlson 2010-09-15 19:36:24 UTC

Description of problem:

The output of 'ethtool -i ethx' shows the wrong firmware version for NCSI enabled devices.  Commit ecc796486f0a7f4958f8dc7550267570dcacb608 fixes the problem.  There is also a minor fixup that needs to be applied in the same area.  NCSI does not support firmware events.  The pending upstream patch, entitled "tg3: Don't send APE events for NCSI firmware" fixes the problem.

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Comment 1 John Feeney 2010-09-24 18:52:32 UTC

Rpms with these patches can be found on my people page. See http://people.redhat.com/jfeeney/.bzrhel56

Testing feedback would be appreciated.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-09-24 19:09:31 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 3 Andrius Benokraitis 2010-09-27 18:48:10 UTC

Matt - please add me to the CC list when creating new BZs if you don't mind - this is the first I've seen this...

Comment 4 Ben 2010-09-30 11:08:46 UTC

Verified it work with kernel-2.6.18-222.el5.bz634325.1.x86_64.rpm.

Comment 6 Jarod Wilson 2010-10-14 14:03:40 UTC

in kernel-2.6.18-227.el5
You can download this test kernel (or newer) from http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5

Detailed testing feedback is always welcomed.

Comment 8 Chris Ward 2010-10-21 11:54:20 UTC

Ben, thanks for the status update. In the future, when posting passing test
results, i strongly encourage you and your colleagues to update the Verified
field above to read 'Broadcom' so that we know this bug has been tested.
Thanks!

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 21:18:56 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html