[SRU][N][PULL][PATCH V2 0/8] ixgbe: Add support for E610 in Noble
Michael Reed
michael.reed at canonical.com
Tue Dec 2 19:47:38 UTC 2025
Hi Ioanna,
I contacted Intel about 4 additional commits and Intel stated that the
patches provide fixes/improvements but do not affect basic functionality.
Hi Stefan,
I will work with our team to provide test results and include them in this
request. I will notify you when we have the results posted.
Regards,
Michael
On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 4:20 AM Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
wrote:
> On 28/11/2025 10:49, Ioanna Alifieraki wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > I did a grep in the upstream commits and found 4 commits that are
> > fixes for the ones you pull in here.
> > The commits are:
> >
> > 316ba68175b04a9f6f75295764789ea94e31d48c ixgbe: destroy aci.lock later
> > within ixgbe_remove path
> > b85936e95a4bd2a07e134af71e2c0750a69d2b8b ixgbe: initialize aci.lock
> > before it's used
> > 40206599beec98cfeb01913ee417f015e3f6190c ixgbe: fix media type
> > detection for E610 device
> > b1e44b4aecb551727a368df5b85c535f2ce932ea ixgbe: fix media cage present
> > detection for E610 device
> >
> > I'd recommend evaluating whether they also need to be pulled in to
> > avoid any potential issues.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jo
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM Michael Reed <michael.reed at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Michael Reed <Michael.Reed at canonical.com>
> >>
> >> SRU Justification
> >>
> >> BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/2131265
> >> These patches are already in Plucky and Questing.
> >>
> >> [Impact]
> >>
> >> Add initial support for Intel(R) E610 Series of network devices. The
> E610
> >> is based on X550 but adds firmware managed link, enhanced security
> >> capabilities and support for updated server manageability.
> >>
> >> Additionally, this is needed for Charmed Openstack Jammy/Caracal
> deployment. It requires servers to be on 22.04 Jammy (HWE kernel 6.8). Some
> servers f.e. Dell PowerEdge uses Intel NIC E610 and if this nic is planned
> to be used for PXE boot and to access the internet this missing
> functionality will effectively disqualify those servers from the approved
> HW for Openstack since NIC will not be detected by the OS.
> >>
> >> [Fix]
> >>
> >> This patch series adds low level support for the following features and
> >> enables link management.
> >>
> >> 4600cdf ixgbe: Enable link management in E610 device
> >> 34b4157 ixgbe: Clean up the E610 link management related code
> >> a0834bd ixgbe: Add ixgbe_x540 multiple header inclusion protection
> >> e5b132b ixgbe: Add support for EEPROM dump in E610 device
> >> d2483eb ixgbe: Add support for NVM handling in E610 device
> >> 23c0e5a ixgbe: Add link management support for E610 device
> >> 7c3aa0f ixgbe: Add support for E610 device capabilities detection
> >> 46761fd ixgbe: Add support for E610 FW Admin Command Interface
> >>
> >> [Test Case]
> >>
> >> 1. Install the test kernel and reboot
> >> 2. Verify the ixgbe module is loaded
> >> - modinfo ixgbe
> >>
> >> 3. Remove and Re-add the ixgbe module
> >> - rmmod ixgbe
> >> - modprobe ixgbe
> >>
> >> 3. Verify the Intel E610 is available on the system
> >> - sudo lshw -C network
> >>
> >> 4. Configure the ports and ping an external IP address
> >> 5. Run Iperf from the SUT to an external iperf server
>
> In addition to Ioanna's questions it would be good to mention here
> whether those tests were already done with a test kernel before
> submitting. Ideally not only on the added model but also on one or two
> of the already supported models of the ixgbe driver. As this driver
> already exists there is always a chance that the new functionality
> causes unexpected side-effects on the older devices.
>
> -Stefan
> >>
> >> [Where problems could occur]
> >>
> >> The regression risk is low. There are no core kernel changes. Changes
> are primarily to the ixgbe driver (drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/)
> adding support for the Intel E610 device. The majority of the changes are
> in newly added files (ixgbe_e610.c ixgbe_type_e610.h). There are some minor
> refactoring to existing ixgbe code involving the x540 and x550 nics but
> existing device behavior isn't changed it's just shared with E610.
> >>
> >> [Other Info]
> >>
> >> Noble
> >>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~mreed8855/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/noble/+ref/intel_e610_lp_2131265_2
> >>
> >> The following changes since commit
> ec94ee9fbaf301e392923b4715f5615df1a96e1f:
> >>
> >> UBUNTU: SAUCE: perf/core: Allow CAP_PERFMON for paranoid level 4
> (2025-11-14 09:41:26 +0100)
> >>
> >> are available in the Git repository at:
> >>
> >>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~mreed8855/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/noble/+ref/intel_e610_lp_2131265_2
> intel_e610_lp_2131265_2
> >>
> >> for you to fetch changes up to 5eea265058f5b1ba44c5db0f1741754d3c2b8fa1:
> >>
> >> ixgbe: Enable link management in E610 device (2025-11-19 15:14:18
> -0600)
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Piotr Kwapulinski (8):
> >> ixgbe: Add support for E610 FW Admin Command Interface
> >> ixgbe: Add support for E610 device capabilities detection
> >> ixgbe: Add link management support for E610 device
> >> ixgbe: Add support for NVM handling in E610 device
> >> ixgbe: Add support for EEPROM dump in E610 device
> >> ixgbe: Add ixgbe_x540 multiple header inclusion protection
> >> ixgbe: Clean up the E610 link management related code
> >> ixgbe: Enable link management in E610 device
> >>
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/Makefile | 10 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h | 13 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_82599.c | 3 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 25 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_dcb_nl.c | 3 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c | 2658
> ++++++++++++++++++++
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.h | 81 +
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c | 6 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_lib.c | 3 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 436 +++-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_mbx.c | 4 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c | 5 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h | 72 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_type_e610.h | 1074 ++++++++
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x540.c | 14 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x540.h | 9 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c | 29 +-
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.h | 20 +
> >> 18 files changed, 4413 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> >> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c
> >> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.h
> >> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_type_e610.h
> >> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.h
> >>
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