[Bug 1912511] Re: [SRU] Add support for E810 NIC to Ice Driver in Focal

I installed the proposed kernel and the E810 is working as expected.

The interfaces came up and I was able to ping and ssh into the system
using the E810 interfaces.

$ uname -a
Linux C6520-E810-30 5.4.0-78-generic #87-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 18 16:29:09 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu@C6520-E810-30:~$ sudo apt-cache policy linux-generic
linux-generic:
Installed: 5.4.0.78.81
Candidate: 5.4.0.78.81
Version table:
*** 5.4.0.78.81 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
5.4.0.77.80 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
5.4.0.26.32 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages


** Tags removed: verification-needed-focal
** Tags added: verification-done-focal

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Title:
[SRU] Add support for E810 NIC to Ice Driver in Focal

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in linux source package in Focal:
Fix Committed

Bug description:
[Impact]
The Intel Ice driver in 5.4 does not contain the PCIIDs necessary to allow the driver to see the E810 network cards. Without this, users running Focal GA will be unable to deploy Ubuntu via MAAS, or use these cards at all post-install when installing from an ISO.

The patch to resolve this landed in Groovy, so this should be a pretty
straightforward pick to 5.4. The patch set is small.

[Test Case]

This is easily reproducible by simply trying to install Focal onto a
system with an E810 NIC. The NIC is not recognized and thus is not
configurable or usable.

[Where problems could occur]

All this patch does is add PCI ID information for E810 to the driver
to enable a wider set of cards to be used. Problems should not involve
regressions to existing supported hardware, if anything the biggest
issue could be discovering that after adding the PCI IDs, further
patches are necessary to fully enable support in the Ice driver.

[Other Info]

This was reported by a hardware partner and blocks certification for
systems that use E810 based NICs as their primary network devices.

Git repository:

https://code.launchpad.net/~mreed8855/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/focal/+ref/lp_1912511_e810_3

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