Re: driver support for Chelsio T210 10Gb ethernet in 2.6.x

Re: driver support for Chelsio T210 10Gb ethernet in 2.6.x

[Jeff Garzik]

Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> The in-kernel Chelsio cxgb driver in 2.6.19-rc5 is version 2.1.1 and 
> only supports the N110 and N210 10Gb ethernet boards.  The current 
> driver available from Chelsio[1] is 2.1.4a and supports the T110 and 
> T210 series boards, but is only available against 2.6.16.  Any chance of 
> an update to the in-kernel driver for 2.6.20 to support the T* series 
> cards?
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 1. http://service.chelsio.com/drivers/linux/n210/cxgb-2.1.4a.tar.gz

A bit of history:  this driver was merged in March 2005 (submitted by 
Chelsio), updated once in June 2005, and then the maintainers completely 
disappeared.

So, you get what you get...  if someone wants to dig through the updated 
cxgb driver and merge it with the kernel and test it... great.  But at 
this point it is abandonware.

	Jeff

Re: driver support for Chelsio T210 10Gb ethernet in 2.6.x

[Jeff Garzik]

Felix Marti wrote:
> Jeff, as indicated by Chris, the driver that is in the kernel is for
> N110 and N210. So far, we have not received any customer complaints
> regarding bugs in the driver and thus it has not been updated in a long
> time. If you feel like there are some missing features/bug fixes, I'd be
> glad to spend some time on it.
> 
> However, Chris's initial request is regarding support for T210. As you
> indicate, the T210 product is a superset of N110/N210 and i.e. supports
> TOE. Since the T210 board features additional pieces of hardware, these
> must be initialized (i.e. memory controllers and TCAM) even if the board
> is to be used as a NIC only. If the kernel developers are okay with
> these additional initialization procedures we could update the driver to
> support N as well as T based products, in NIC mode only, of course ;)


I'd welcome support for NIC mode, so, sure...

	Jeff

Re: driver support for Chelsio T210 10Gb ethernet in 2.6.x

[Jeff Garzik]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Felix Marti wrote:
>> Jeff, as indicated by Chris, the driver that is in the kernel is for
>> N110 and N210. So far, we have not received any customer complaints
>> regarding bugs in the driver and thus it has not been updated in a long
>> time. If you feel like there are some missing features/bug fixes, I'd be
>> glad to spend some time on it.
>>
>> However, Chris's initial request is regarding support for T210. As you
>> indicate, the T210 product is a superset of N110/N210 and i.e. supports
>> TOE. Since the T210 board features additional pieces of hardware, these
>> must be initialized (i.e. memory controllers and TCAM) even if the board
>> is to be used as a NIC only. If the kernel developers are okay with
>> these additional initialization procedures we could update the driver to
>> support N as well as T based products, in NIC mode only, of course ;)
> 
> 
> I'd welcome support for NIC mode, so, sure...

Well, presuming that active maintenance comes along with it...

	Jeff

[PATCH 1/2] chelsio: T200 support

[Stephen Hemminger]

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This patch is experimental, it applies after the earlier 6 chelsio cleanup
patches. Tested on a pair of T210 board's.

I took the chelsio's 2.2.0 version driver from:
	http://service.chelsio.com/drivers/linux/t210/cxgb2toe-2.2.0.tar.gz

Removed (from vendor code):
	- all TOE related code
	- support for 1G devices (later patch)
	- support for COUGAR chipset (since vendor code never built it)

Bug fixes (to vendor code):
	- fixed the transmit scheduler to not leak on removal
	- fixed the ESPI bug workaround to free skb's on close instead of
	  module removal, otherwise it gets stuck on module removal because the
	  skb's hold reference to device

De-vendorized:
	- remove /proc debug interface
	- got rid of OS dependent wrapper crap
	- removed code that was '#ifdef' for older kernel versions
	- changed the code/function layout back to original so that only the
	  differences remain  i.e s/chtoe/cxgb/
	- update vendor code from 2.6.16 to 2.6.19
	- get rid of sparse warnings
	- remove dead code

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

Patch is 68K (300K uncompressed) so please download from:
	
	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/chelsio-t2.patch.gz

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[PATCH 2/2] chelsio: 1G board support

[Stephen Hemminger]

This patch is the addon to the Chelsio 10G driver to support their 1G boards.
I extracted this from the vendor driver version 2.2 code, and cleaned it up
to match the mainline code.

I don't have the hardware, so it probably doesn't work as is.  But getting
it to development kernel will get others to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

Patch is large 80K so please download from:
	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/chelsio-1g.patch.gz

Re: [PATCH 1/2] chelsio: T200 support

[Francois Romieu]

Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> :
> This patch is experimental, it applies after the earlier 6 chelsio cleanup
> patches. Tested on a pair of T210 board's.

The whole serie is stored as branch 'chelsio' at:
git://electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com/home/romieu/linux/linux-2.6-out/.git chelsio

I have hand-edited a few patches to convert some spaces/tabs.

-- 
Ueimor

Re: [PATCH 1/2] chelsio: T200 support

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:17:38 +0100
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> :
> > This patch is experimental, it applies after the earlier 6 chelsio cleanup
> > patches. Tested on a pair of T210 board's.
> 
> The whole serie is stored as branch 'chelsio' at:
> git://electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com/home/romieu/linux/linux-2.6-out/.git chelsio

I think you meant
git://electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com/home/romieu/linux-2.6.git#chelsio

> I have hand-edited a few patches to convert some spaces/tabs.

I'll try adding this to -mm.

I hope someone knows what's happening with this driver, because I've
seriously lost the plot.