Linux 5.9 Networking Changes Are As Active As Ever
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With Linux 5.9 the networking churn is active as usual with a wide assortment of changes:
- The Qualcomm Atheros Ath11k driver now supports the 6GHz WiFi.
- Xilinx EF100 NIC support.
- Support for 5GBASE-T i40e NICs.
- Intel is making it easier to flash Ethernet device firmware for the E800 series hardware on the ICE driver in handling of Platform Level Data Model (PLDM) firmware updates.
- The CXGB4 driver also now allows flashing different firmware images. This is the driver for Celsio 1G and 10G network cards.
- Support for hardware IPSEC offload on bonding slaves.
- The bpftool program now show a list of processes holding BPF file descriptor references to maps/programs/inks/objects.
- BPF can now iterate over TCP and UDP sockets.
- XDP support in the Xen-NetFront driver.
- Support receiver buffer auto-tuning within MPTCP, the Multi-Path TCP code merged earlier this year, along with other MPTCP improvements this cycle.
- A wide variety of other fixes and improvements.
More details via this Git merge.
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