MrQ

We're preparing an update of the Cisco ENIC driver on XCP-ng 8.3, from 4.5.0.7 to 4.7.0.6.

This is a significant upstream update, including changes to SR-IOV, PF/VF communication, queue/IRQ handling, MTU and lifecycle management. We've only done build testing so far, so we'd really like to have some users with Cisco ENIC hardware test it before we release it officially.

If you're running XCP-ng 8.3 with an ENIC NIC and are willing to help, please give it a try!

Download the test RPM from the Koji build:

cd /tmp
wget https://koji.xcp-ng.org/kojifiles/packages/cisco-enic/4.7.0.6/1.1.xcpng8.3/x86_64/cisco-enic-4.7.0.6-1.1.xcpng8.3.x86_64.rpm
yum update ./cisco-enic-4.7.0.6-1.1.xcpng8.3.x86_64.rpm
reboot

After reboot, you can check the driver version with:

ethtool -i <interface>

In case of problems, you can simply downgrade to the version currently available in the XCP-ng repositories:

yum downgrade cisco-enic
reboot

If you encounter any problems, please report them here, ideally including the output of:

rpm -q cisco-enic
ethtool -i <interface>
dmesg | grep -i enic

Thanks to anyone willing to test this!

PR for reference: https://github.com/xcp-ng-rpms/cisco-enic/pull/1

We have been working on a version of the emulex-lpfc RPM package that would support both old and new hardware (the work-in-progress documentation can be found at https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp-ng-org/pull/518), and we would really appreciate your help testing the installation ISO or the updated RPMs to make sure it works as expected on your hosts.

The new (testing) ISO can be found here

The updated RPM can be pulled directly from here (to update the driver on an already installed XCP-ng host):.

The new RPM bundles two different versions of the lpfc kernel module, lpfc.ko handles the Emulex Fiber Chanell adapters that were already supported while a lpfc14.ko handles the newer generations.

Whether you are running an older generation Fiber Chanel Adapter or a more recent one, it would be great to get confirmation it works for your use case!

Any remarks on the documentation PR is welcome too!