Bug 555671
| Summary: | MRG -146/-147 kernels have older broadcom drivers compared with RHEL5.4 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise MRG | Reporter: | IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy> |
| Component: | realtime-kernel | Assignee: | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | David Sommerseth <davids> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 1.2 | CC: | bhu, lgoncalv, ovasik, williams |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
Updated the Broadcom bnx2 driver to version 2.0.8 to enable new hardware
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| Last Closed: | 2010-08-17 15:54:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
IBM Bug Proxy
2010-01-15 07:10:46 UTC
Patch bz555671-update_bnx2_driver_to_2.0.8.patch, update to driver version 2.0.8 + fixes compiled by Arnaldo, has been added to kernel-rt 2.6.24.7-153 Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Updated the Broadcom bnx2 driver to version 2.0.8 to enable new hardware Verified by code review. Found bz555671-update_bnx2_driver_to_2.0.8.patch implemented in kernel-rt-2.6.24.7-160.src.rpm. [root@dell-pet110-01 ~]# modinfo bnx2 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24.7-160.el5rt/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko firmware: bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09ax-5.0.0.j10.fw firmware: bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j10.fw firmware: bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j9.fw firmware: bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-5.0.0.j3.fw firmware: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j6.fw version: 2.0.8 license: GPL description: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708/5709/5716 Driver author: Michael Chan <mchan> srcversion: 29E5C313A3DC1F4DD5CFB05 [...snip...] vermagic: 2.6.24.7-160.el5rt SMP preempt mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS Version info from patch: -#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "1.7.8" -#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE "July 10, 2008" +#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "2.0.8" +#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE "Feb 15, 2010" dmesg from booting -160: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.0.8 (Feb 15, 2010) Ran nfs and cifs connectathon tests and kernel/networking/nic/stress tests against boxes with bnx2x and igb cards without any issues. General networking tested, dhcp, ssh, wget/curl, ping. Over 20GB of data have been pushed over the interface. ------- Comment From johnstul.com 2010-07-27 22:34 EDT------- I think we can mark this accepted. 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-2010-0631.html |