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                                RELEASE NOTES

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                    Chelsio Unified Wire for VMware ESXi 7.0
          


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CHANGES 
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Driver
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Version : 5.3.0.28
Date    : 05/19/2023
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Native Network (NIC):
- T{5,6} firmware updated to 1.27.3.0
- Fixed the issue observed during uEFI PXE boot. 
- Fixed the issue observed with repeated toggling of interface. 
- Fixed the PSOD seen with driver reloads using different parameters.
- Fixed the issue observed while setting 1G speed on 10G port.
- Fixed the traffic stall while doing storage vmotion.
- Fixed the driver corruption observed on multiple reboots.
- Added support to modify, clear boot configuration.
- Added dynamic netqueue support.
- Limited the maximum Rx queues to number of cpus.


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Version : 5.3.0.20
Date    : 06/24/2020
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iSCSI Offload Initiator:
- Fixed the login failure seen with Nexanta iSCSI target.


Firmware
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Version : 1.27.3.0
Date    : 04/07/2023
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Fixes
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BASE:
- Fixed a hang if module eeprom reads gives invalid data.
- KR backlplane no-fec link problem fixed.

OFLD:
- iscsi ddp errors fixed.
- iwarp connection abort in rare cases causing NIC traffic hang fixed.


ENHANCEMENTS
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BASE:
- Cisco GLC-TE 1G modules support added.


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Version : 1.27.1.0
Date    : 12/02/2022
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Fixes
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BASE:
- memwrite dsgl cannot be used for T5.

OFLD:
- Enabled FCoE in SO adapters.
- TOE-TLS crash fixed.
- iscsi hang fixed.



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ERRATA (Open Issues)
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Native Network (NIC)
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- 42745: descrepancies with rss resulting in overall low throughput

Workaround: Load cxl driver with "rss_q=1" parameter.

- 42008: Issue seen on unloading cxl driver with interface receiving continuous 
         pause frames. 

- 38105: only a max of 16 VF's supported per port in case of two port adapter.

- 38071: Winodws VM with T5 SR-IOV VF is not supported.

- 37629: Need GENEVE support.

- 36014: Unloading cxl driver on host with VFs attached is not recommended. 

- 35033: Need DCB support.

- 34022: IPv6 ping fails on NIC interface in VM when VM has both SR-IOV and NIC 
         interfaces.

- 33990: Errors observed on 25G link connected to mellanox Switch.

NOTE: The errors are seen only with this switch. To workaround it, Enable RS FEC 
      on the Chelsio port using cxgbtool.

      [root@host:~] /opt/chelsio/bin/cxgbtool -c fec -upd rs 


iSCSI Offload Initiator
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- 37079: need iscsi initiator support for "IPv6 Router Advertisement Configuration" 
        and "IPv6 Linklocal Auto Configuration".
 

iSER Offload Initiator
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- 39238: Include tids/iwarp stats/memory /eps/qps counters.

- 39203: Repetaed togglin of VMkernel interface with iSER targets logged in is 
         not supported. 
 

NVMe-oF Offload Initiator
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- 39647: warnings and timeouts seen while rediscovering controllers.


 




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