Comment 9 for bug 1779756
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| Vivien GUEANT (vivienfr) wrote Re: i40e driver does not work with kernel 4.15 | #9 |
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Intel released the 6.01 Firmware for the Intel XL710 network cards. As stated in the feature support matrix [1] in the table 9 on page 18, the minimum kernel driver version for the 6.01 Firmware i40e must be 2.1.26, the recent driver version is 2.4.10 [2]
The i40 driver version included in the 4.15.0-36 (Bionic, LTS) is 2.1.14-k.
$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-bionic 4.15.0-36-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 24 16:19:09 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ modinfo i40e
filename: /lib/modules/
version: 2.1.14-k
license: GPL
description: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver
Release notes: [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
The firmware 6.01 introduce better performance for DPDK and SR-IOV applications for those cards, and NFV application workloads would perform better.
[1] Intel® Ethernet Controller X710/ XXV710/XL710 Feature Support Matrix
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[2] Intel® Network Adapter Driver for PCIe* 40 Gigabit Ethernet Network Connections Under Linux*
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[3] Intel(R) Network Connections Software Version 23.2 Release Notes
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[4] Intel(R) Network Connections Software Version 23.1 Release Notes
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[5] Intel(R) Network Connections Software Version 22.10 Release Notes
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[6] Intel(R) Network Connections Software Version 22.9 Release Notes
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[7] Intel(R) Network Connections Software Version 22.6 Release Notes
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