On 2018-11-09 Intel released version 6.80 (FreeBSD currently ships 6.01). This update might help solve a severe issue causing "Malicious Driver Detection events". https://communities.intel.com/message/594608#594608 https://communities.intel.com/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdownloadcenter.intel.com%2Fdownload%2F22283%2FEthernet-Intel-Ethernet-Adapter-Complete-Driver-Pack
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Created attachment 199696 [details] patch
as per [1] (page 18): "Note: Update to the device driver for given release prior to running the NVM update tool." so ideally the related driver (net/intel-ixl-kmod) is updated along this port. bug is: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233531 [1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/release-notes/xl710-ethernet-controller-feature-matrix.pdf
Kurt, The patch looks good, please go ahead and commit it. Thank you, Sergey
Committed, thanks!
A commit references this bug: Author: pi Date: Mon Dec 10 15:16:17 UTC 2018 New revision: 487178 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/487178 Log: sysutils/intel-nvmupdate: update 6.01 -> 6.80 - Please note: FCoE is no longer supported and is no longer being tested PR: 233532 Reported by: ixbug@riseup.net Approved by: skozlov@FreeBSD.org (maintainer) Relnotes: https://downloadmirror.intel.com/22283/eng/readme.txt Changes: head/sysutils/intel-nvmupdate/Makefile head/sysutils/intel-nvmupdate/distinfo head/sysutils/intel-nvmupdate/pkg-plist