Release.txt Driver File Contents (NIC_DRVR_WIN_R291627.EXE)

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INTEL(R) PRO/1000 NDIS6 driver for Windows Vista.

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11.8.35.0  (Pci Express)  NOT Digitally signed
Date: 07/01/2010
Comments:
    Version 11.8.35.0 is the initial driver version for this project.

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All Windows Versions 11.8.57.0  (Pci Express)  NOT Digitally signed
Date: 08/03/2010
Comments:
    Other
        Changes Made:
            Added checks for adapter context to resolve a race condition between filter resource 
            requirement IRPs and MiniportInitialize

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3045223:  PCH: e1k driver not reading the Half Duplex phy statistic counters
        hsd_ladsw 3143668:  SIPS and LSBS: Unnecessary link speed change occurs at 10Mb

    Other
        Description:
            Updated and corrected use of FPGA_SUPPORT.

        Changes Made:
            Turned off FPGA support by default. Replaced NIANTIC_FPGA_SUPPORT and TWINVILLE_FPGA_SUPPORT
            with the generic FPGA_SUPPORT that everyone else uses. Removed some Niantic FPGA code that 
            is no longer valid with the new FPGA machines.

    Other
        Changes Made:
            Added new fn to check for PCH devices. Added port gen cfg in powerup for Lewisville.

    Other
        Description:
            New registry parameter TxDelay.

        Changes Made:
            Added registry parameter "TxDelay", which specifies a delay in microseconds after every write
            to Tx Tail. The default is 0 (no delay). The code is wrapped in #ifdef FPGA_SUPPORT because 
            it is only used when working with an FPGA.

    Other
        Description:
            To partially ease hotspots in RxProcessNextPacket, checksum offload function was re-factored

        Changes Made:
            There is a new field called RxDescriptorStatus which is part of the PRECEIVE_BUFFER, populated
            in the RxProcessNextDescriptor so we do not need to dig into it in the CSO function. Convert 
            the if-else checks into a switch case statement.

    Other
        Changes Made:
            Added the port gen cfg in  init flow for lewisville.

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3332377:  Lewisville fails WOL from Directed Packet

        Root Cause:
            This issue was root-caused to the fact that the SMBus Address was not programmed into the PHY
            while going down to Sx on first boot. It is present in subsequent S0->Sx cycles which is why 
            WoL works in these cycles.

        Resolution Notes:
            Modified the driver to always program the SMBus Address into the PHY when going down to Sx states.

        Testing Hints:
            Ensure the WoL works in multiple S0->Sx cycles.

    Other
        Description:
            Fixed ARP/ND offload DEBUGFUNC() related macro calls; adding string quotes.

        Changes Made:
            Fixed ARP/ND offload DEBUGFUNC() related macro calls; adding string quotes.

    New Feature
        Feature Description:
            Allocate dedicated interrupt vectors for FCoE so that FCoE interrupts no longerdepend on RSS 
            either in terms of number of queues or in terms of RSS CPUscontrolled by the OS.

        Changes Made:
            Eight additional msix message resources are allocated just for FCoE, and theircpu affinities 
            are spread across sockets so that FCoE is more likely to have asame-socket CPU to use for any 
            CPU on which storage traffic might be initiated.The total number of MSIX messages requested 
            is now (max(16,numcores) + 2 + 8).The additional 8 for FCoE puts some additional pressure on 
            PCI resourcearbitration, so future changes might mitigate this by reducing the numcorespart 
            of the preceding equation (i.e. by not targetting every possible RSS cpu).The small additional
            pressure is unlikely to be a problem even withoutmitigation; it will be very unlikely to 
            trigger fallback behavior any soonerthat it currently occurs.

        Testing Hints:
            Exercise FCoE and observe queues are statically associated with cpus.  Exercise RSS, 
            observe RSS OID's occurring (either with oids.exe to monitor stats or via debug output in 
            checked build of base driver), and observe that the FCoE cpus do *not* change when the RSS 
            cpus change.

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3331784:  Low network througput with Jumbo Frames + Lewisville Sugar Bay & Huron River.

        Root Cause:
            This issue is caused by a large number of missed packets that could not be DMA-ed to host 
            memory, thereby resulting in bad throughput numbers. It is directly related to the C6 CPU 
            state on the platform. If C6 is disabled in the BIOS, this issue does not occur. The exit 
            latency from C6 appears to be more than the time required to get the packet into Host memory 
            and hence large numbers of packets are dropped (because there is no more space in the Packet 
            Buffer to hold them)

        Resolution Notes:
            Modified the ITR algorithm function to add a work-around that accounts for missed packets (as 
            determined by the MPC register) and pegs the CurrentITRMode at LowestLatency. The work-around
            will ensure that the LowestLatency mode stays for at least 100 DPCs before we allow it to 
            increment to the next order of magnitude (LowLatency)

    Build Changes
        hsd_ladsw 3332476:  E1C driver does not set Host LinkSec Connection Active” (LSECA) bit in the 
                            H2ME register when enabling MACsec

        Brief Description:
            clears H2ME bits for linksec connections.

    Other
        Description:
            Moved all LSC processing to a work-item thread to improve system performance

        Changes Made:
            Moved all of the Link Status Change (LSC) processing code from the DPC function to a work-item
            function. The advantage gained here is that work item threads run at IRQL=PASSIVE_LEVEL and 
            hence do not stall the CPU (or the system) as it would when processed in a DPC

    Other
        Description:
            Functions IncrementAdapterIndex() and GetAdapterIndex() need to return the index of the 
             adapter (usually AdapterNumber - 1)

        Changes Made:
            Modified IncrementAdapterIndex() and GetAdapterIndex() to properly return AdapterIndex of 1 
            less than AdapterCount.

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3332672:  Spring Fountain - NDOS Tester 6.0 - 1c_faulthandling test causes the system 
                            to bug check

    Other
        Description:
            A number of Klocwork fixes for null pointers, errors with classes, and uninitialized variables

        Changes Made:
            A number of Klocwork fixes for null pointers, errors with classes, and uninitialized variables


    New Feature
        Feature Description:
            DCR 996 - Event Log Enhancement

        Changes Made:
            Added code to extract the bus, device and function corresponding to the instance.                                Added code to embed this information in the event log if the branding string (part of event log) exceeds the MAX limit, there by adding identification (which was lost earlier) for corresponding driver instance.

    Other
        Description:
            AIFS oid fixes got reverted, added back for HSD 3145287

        Changes Made:
            AIFS oid fixes got reverted, added back for HSD 3145287

    Other
        Description:
            added full support for reading and writing to VF PCI config space

        Changes Made:
            pass untrapped calls to Ndis to get HW values

    Defect
        HSD LADSW 3332679 Customized LED value in NVM not applied with LV Beta SW

        Root Cause
            The LED writes (and smbus address) were not taking effect because sw has gated ppw and the 
            driver is checking for oem write enable bits

        Resolution
            Removed the check for oem write enable bits for Nahum5

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All Windows Versions 11.8.67.0  (Pci Express)  NOT Digitally signed
Date: 08/19/2010
Comments:

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3332339:  CERTS:  Lewisville fails WoLMagicPacket

    New Feature
        Feature Description:
            Interrupt refactoring to decouple User Priority to Traffic Class mapping, so that FCOE will
            use a fixed TC.

        Changes Made:
             Base driver reads the UP-TC mapping given by DCB to determine which TC to use given the UP.

    New Feature
        Feature Description:
             Iteration on new OID format to supply information on mapped queues in redundant but more 
             convenient form.

        Changes Made:
             In addition to supplying a QueueBitmap for each cpu that has one or more queues mapped, 
             supply an absolute queue number and a count indicating how many queues mapped to the CPU.
             Queues>1 are not expected in practice, but the immutable nature of the OID generally benefits
             from fully complete expression.

        Testing Hints:
            Write FCoE query OID code per the new format.  In the FCoE protocol driver, read back Queue 
            and QueuesMapped values for CPUs that have queues mapped.

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3332727:  Windows FCoE: Basic LUN connectivity issues with re-factored RSS changes

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3332794:  Lewisville B0 fails to link correctly when forced to full duplex

    Other
        Description:
            The FCoE driver saw asserts because the single ether type setting for TC3 was incorrect.

        Changes Made:
           Queues 48-55 are for FCoE. The traffic on these queues is FCOE and other packets for TC 3.
           Therefore we cannot set single ether type flag just on a queue just because we detected an 
           fcoe packet. The driver now checks the ethertype of every NBL in the list. If they are all 
           ethertype FCoE on the given queues, the single ether type flag is set.

   Other
        Description:
            Minor change to the handling of FIP packets.

        Changes Made:
            Removed the check for FIP packets that forced them out of the same TC as FCOE packets.
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All Windows Versions 11.8.71.0  (Pci Express)  NOT Digitally signed
Date: 09/07/2010
Comments:

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3331880:  CERTS:  Lewisville fails offloadchecksum

        Root Cause:
            K1 beacon duration was changed from 10 usec to 8 usec at 1G that resolved the dropped packet 
            case between the phy and the mac

        Additional Notes:
            Built with v 3.9 of shared code that has K1 beacon fix and Jumbo Frames code cleanup

    Build Changes
        Brief Description:
            Code fix in powerdown to prevent Lewisville C0 from enabling ARP/NS offload in Management Engine
            Power Policy 1

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All Windows Versions 11.8.74.0  (Pci Express) DIGITALLY SIGNED:  WHQL ID: 1426831
Date: 09/20/2010
Comments:

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3333323:  PROMOTE from sighting: Lewisville: RLSS links at 100Mbps instead of 10Mbps
                            in Sx states

        Root Cause:
            This issue is caused by the fact that the ME programs the LPLU bits in the PHY OEM bits 
            register by reading corresponding bits in the MAC PHYCtrl register. The s/w driver is not 
            programming the MAC PHYCtrl LPLU bits when RLSS is checked/unchecked.

        Resolution Notes:
            The LPLU bits are now written to both the PHY OEM bits register and the MAC PHYCtrl 
            register when the 'Reduce link speed on standby' option is checked/unchecked.

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3704638:  Lewisville - multiple adapter enable/disable causing code 10 error on 
        Customer platform

 
        Root Cause:
            The Lewisville windows driver on system would occasionally code 10 after multiple driver 
            resets. This was due to an unknown phy id. The phy reg read was incorrectly returning the 
            data from the previous phy reg read, so the phy id returned was either all Fs when running
            in fast mode (which occurred 100%), or 0x01540154 when running in slow mode.

        Resolution Notes:
            Added a mac check for PCH2 to get the phy id only when in slow mode. The phy transaction
            logic takes 80us to complete a read or write, so a delay of 100us was added to the mdic 
            read and write calls for PCH2. A mac check was added in the phy calls rather than a phy 
            check in case the phy id is unknown when the function is called.

        Testing Hints:
            Disable and re-enable the driver multuple times and verify that the driver does not code 10.
            Next steps: Will update the HSD number for the errata sometime this week.

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All Windows Versions 11.8.74.0  (Pci Express) No driver version change NOT DIGITALLY SIGNED
Date: 10/19/2010
Comments:

	Driver INF files updated to add the 4-part device ID for the Gold Coast platform.
		8086/1502/04AD/1028
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Windows Vista and Windows XP 11.8.78.0  (Pci Express) Digitally Signed:  WHQL ID 1431128
Date: 10/29/2010
Comments:
    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3704590:  Code changes from Si SV testing

        Root Cause:
            OEM bits not set for PCH2. gig disable and LPLU bits set for D0 instead of D3

        Resolution Notes:
            Changes made to shared code in 3.9.0.3 v and tip. Changes to set oem bits made in the 
            windows driver for driver unload

    Customization
        Brief Description:
            Added a key to enable Lewisville JF performance at the expense of ping timeouts

    Customization
        Brief Description:
            Changed default Rx PBA on Lewisville to 18K, users can change to 14K with registry key for 
            9K JF performance adjustment

    Defect
        hsd_ladsw 3705060:  PROMOTE from sighting: AT7 -Power: ME doesn't answer to ping in S3/S4 when 
                            "wake on pattern match" is set in Host driver.

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