I cherry picked the two commits mentioned in the bug description on top of: Ubuntu-4.15.0-12.13. Here is the top three commits in my tree used to build the test kernel:
a583fee nfp: implement firmware flashing 9537edf nfp: extend NSP infrastructure for configurable timeouts f02c5a4 UBUNTU: Ubuntu-4.15.0-12.13 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1760152 Title: nfp: request backport of ethtool flashing Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in linux source package in Bionic: Triaged Bug description: Backport recently upstreamed changes to the nfp driver to allow flash updates to be written to Netronome SmartNICs using ethtool. f.e. # ethtool -f netdev_name flash-nic.bin This feature is not currently present in the Bionic kernel and the above command results in the following error: Error return + "Flashing failed: Operation not supported\n" This feature is implemented by the following upstream commits. 7a7415659144 ("nfp: implement firmware flashing") 87a23801e502 ("nfp: extend NSP infrastructure for configurable timeouts") To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1760152/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
