Which versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have support for the QLogic FastLinQ 45xxx and QL41xxx (qed/qede)

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • QLogic FastLinQ 45xxx or QL41xxx Converged Network Adapters

Issue

  • Which versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have support for QLogic FastLinQ 45xxx and QL41xxx Converged Network Adapters?
  • When was support added for the qed and qede device drivers?

Resolution

View the device PCI ID with the command:

lspci -nn | grep Ether

Devices with the following IDs are supported in RHEL 7.3 and later:

1077:1634
1077:1636
1077:1644
1077:1654
1077:1656
1077:1664
1077:1666

Devices with the following IDs are supported in RHEL 7.4 and later:

1077:8070
1077:8090

No earlier versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux support these devices.

Root Cause

Support was added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 via the Driver Update Program (DUP):

The kmod-qede packages contain the QLogic FastLinQ 4xxxx Ethernet Driver, which adds official support for the qede devices. The PCI IDs supported by these packages are 1077:1634, 1077:1636, 1077:1644, 1077:1654, 1077:1656, 1077:1664, 1077:1666.

The DUP package is intended for early hardware enablement, not general production usage by all customers.

RHEL 7.3 included the qed and qede drivers covering 45xxx devices at release. See the RHEL 7.3 Release Notes - New Drivers.

RHEL 7.4 added support for 41xxx devices with PCI IDs 1077:8070 and 1077:8090. This is covered in RHEL 7.4 Release Notes - Updated drivers.

Diagnostic Steps

drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c

#define CHIP_NUM_57980S_40              0x1634
#define CHIP_NUM_57980S_10              0x1666
#define CHIP_NUM_57980S_MF              0x1636
#define CHIP_NUM_57980S_100             0x1644
#define CHIP_NUM_57980S_50              0x1654
#define CHIP_NUM_57980S_25              0x1656
#define CHIP_NUM_57980S_IOV             0x1664
#define CHIP_NUM_AH                     0x8070
#define CHIP_NUM_AH_IOV                 0x8090

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