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The new QED firmware has 2 main purposes -
First, it contains fixes to various initializations and firmware
logic including:
 - Corrects iSCSI fast retransmit when data digest is enabled.
 - Stop draining packets when receiving several consecutive PFCs.
 - Prevent possible assertion when consecutively opening/closing
   many connections.
 - Prevent possible asserton due to too long BDQ fetch time.

In addition, this firmware contains sufficient infrastructure on which
we'll add iWARP support in our drivers.
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>

This new firmware for the qed* adapters fixes multiple issues:
 - Prevent accidental drops in Tx-switching between VFs.
 - Corrct VF cleanup for higher VFs.
 - Better handling of RoCE error flows.
 - MR registration/deregistration corrections.
 - Prevent possible HW attention during offloaded TCP teardown.
 - Corrections to iSCSI retransmit flows.

In addition, this firmware is a requirement for supporting the
QL41xxx series of adapters, as it contains the necessary init
and firmware logic for those.
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>

This new firmware for the qed* adpaters fixes several issues:
 - Better blocking of malicious VFs.
 - After FLR, Tx-switching [internal routing] of packets might
   be incorrect.
 - Deletion of unicast MAC filters would sometime have side-effect
   of corrupting the MAC filters configred for a device.
It also contains fixes for future qed* drivers that *hopefully* would be
sent for review in the near future.

In addition, it would allow driver some new functionality, including:
 - Allowing PF/VF driver compaitibility with old drivers [running
   pre-8.10.5.0 firmware].
 - Better debug facilities.
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>

The new QED firmware contains several new additions;
As for bug-fixes, it fixes a couple of issues:
 - Wrong classification of packets in 4-port devices.
 - Anti-spoof interoperability with encapsulated packets.
 - Tx-switching of encapsulated packets.
It also slightly improves Tx performance in several scenarios.

>From the driver's feature-set POV, this firmware would
allow us to add 2 major enhancements in the near future:
 - It would allow us produce a register dump from the device,
   as well as other debug-related information.
 - It should be sufficient for our iscsi driver, which we [hopefully]
   plan to push upstream soon.
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>

This patch pushes the next firmware for the QED module.
This fixes numerous bugs, most notably:
  - FLR flow isn't properly working.
  - Chip might become unrespronsive after closing a vport.
  - Chip gets stuck when transmitting packet with length > mtu.

It would also allow us to push future features such as:
  - Vlan filter offload.
  - Encapsulation offload.
  - Single Root IOV support.
  - Timesync.
  - Non-L2 protocols.

>From L2 perspecitve, it's also note-worthy to state that it:
  - Changes fastpath HSI - fastpath will be moved to into using
    Jumbo-over-BD.
  - Improves throughput on single connection traffic.
Signed-off-by: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>

This adds the first FW entry to the newly added
Qlogic Ethernet Driver product series.
Signed-off-by: Sudarsana Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>