: Wesley W. Terpstra [mailto:wes...@terpstra.ca]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 3:11 AM
To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] i40e: source for nvmupdate64e? (to clear module
qualification)
Thank you for your feedback,
> Also be aware that a large chunk of the NVM im
Thank you for your feedback,
> Also be aware that a large chunk of the NVM image is signed and won't
> work if the signature and/or checksum is found invalid. I don't remember
> if the Qualified Module bits are in the signed portion, but I suspect they
> are.
The data sheet (Section 6) says
> From: Wesley W. Terpstra [mailto:wes...@terpstra.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 5:30 AM
>
> I'm still trying to disable this absurd "qualified module" check so that I
> can use some custom optics, and have made some progress. Attached is a
> small tool I've been using to poke around the NVM
I'm still trying to disable this absurd "qualified module" check so that I
can use some custom optics, and have made some progress. Attached is a
small tool I've been using to poke around the NVM of the X710. All my
digging has been informed by what I've read in the i40e driver in kernel
4.5 and
Hi! I have an Intel X710-DA4 and want to use it with a few different SFPs.
Unfortunately, out-of-the-box this seems to be disabled.
>From poking around, it seems that the x710 firmware rejects SFPs not listed
in the NVM qualified database whenever the "Enable Module Qualification"
bit is set (see