              Release Notes for P3P NIC Driver for ESXi 5.0

                       QLogic Corporation.
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Table of Contents

1. Driver name and version.
2. Compatible ESX version(s).
3. Dependencies.
4. Bugs fixed and features added.
5. New hardware supported
6. Known Issues and Workarounds
7. Additional configuration options supported by driver.


1. Driver name and version.

	* Driver name		: qlcnic
	* Driver version	: 5.0.741


2. Compatible ESX version(s).

	* ESXi 5.0.

 
3. Dependencies.

	* None.


4. Bugs Fixed and features added.

	*Bugs fixed:
		1) Don't set device state to failed when auto_fw_reset is
		   disabled.
                2) Fixed a bug where eSwitch traffic doesn't resume after
		   Vmotion with npar.
                3) Fixed PSOD seen while rebooting the ESXi5.0 (PCPU0 didn't
		   have heartbeat and NMI IPI received)
                4) Set the ocm window register for the fw tools to work
		   correctly.
                5) Correctly handle the error codes returned by firmware when
		   querying minidump template.
                6) Fixed a bug in error path while unloading the driver, if
		   previous driver load failed.
                7) Fixed a bug in minidump capture, which was causing the
		   capture to fail when the minidump was captured in round robin
		   fashion on different functions.
                8) Adjust number of entries in mac hash table depending upon
		   number of nic fucntions enabled.
                9) Added support for on demand firmware minidump.
                10) Fixed MTU change functionality. MTU was not being set
		    correctly after a change mtu command, due to incorrect context
		    state check.
		11) Fixed netq instability in maxconfig for max netq traffic.
		12) Fixed a bug in reset path where driver failed to get ack in 10
		    sec message is coming when running traffic with peg halt test.
		13) Fixed a PSOD found while running traffic + driver load unload
		    test in a loop.
		14) Added support for collecting firmware minidump.
		15) Display hw_lro stats as part of driver stats.
		16) Reserve command descriptors for sending control commands to firmware.
		17) Fix device initialization issue seen after continuous firmware resets.
		18) Fix added to stop pause frames generation.


	*Features added:
		None.

5. New hardware supported

	*	None.


6. Known Issues and Workarounds
	
	*	None.


7. Additional configuration options supported by driver.

	*	None.
