Intel® 82576EB GbE Controller — Revisions
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Section 4.4, Device Disable - The following phrase in the section has been changed:
The EEPROM "Power Down Enable" bit (Section 6.2.7) enables device disable mode
(hardware default is that the mode is disabled).
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Table 4-5, 82576 Reset Effects - Per Function Resets - Table updated. See the
entries on PCI Configuration registers and the associated footnotes.
Section 4.2.1.6.3, VF Software Reset - Replaced VFCTRL with VTCTRL (corrects a
typo). Added information that indicates what happens when VTCTRL.RST is set.
Setting VTCTRL.RST resets interrupts and queue enable bits. Other VF registers are
not reset.
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Section 5.0, Power Management updated for clarity.
Section 6.10.7.1, iSCSI Module Structure - Description of structure updated.
Multiple errors were corrected
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Section 7.1.3.1, Host Buffers - Text added. For advanced descriptor usage, the
SRRCTL.BSIZEHEADER field is used to define the size of the buffers allocated to
headers. The maximum buffer size supported is 960 bytes..
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Section 8.2.4, MDI Control Register - MDIC (0x00020; R/W) - Description of bit 31
corrected.
Section 8.10.2, Split and Replication Receive Control - SRRCTL (0x0C00C + 0x40*n
[n=0...15]; R/W). Maximum 960 bytes now indicated for SRRCTL.BSIZEHEADER.
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Section 10.4.4.3, RMCP Filtering - Title of section updated.
Section 10.5.10.1.4, Force TCO Command and Section 10.6.2.13.1, Perform Intel
TCO Reset Command (Intel Command 0x22) - Added description of RESET_MGMT
bit.
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Section 10.5.12, Example Configuration Steps - Added pseudocode describing the
setup of common filtering configurations.
Table 10-35, Command Summary - Commands added, see:
0x02 0x67/68 Set EtherType Filter/Packet Add. Ext. Filter
0x03 0x67/68 Get EtherType Filter/Packet Add. Ext. Filter
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Section 10.5.10.2.1, Receive TCO LAN Packet Transaction. Description of packet
structure added.
Section 10.6.2.6.19, Set Intel Filters - Packet Addition Extended Decision Filter
Command (Intel Command 0x02, Filter parameter 0x68). Text in section updated:
Extended decision filter index range adjusted to 0..4.
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Table 11-5, Current Consumption Details - Added SGMII note to table. (3) To
estimate power for SGMII mode, use the SerDes mode power numbers provided.
Table 11-22, Package Height - Table added. Provides a summary of package height
information.
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4/8/2009
5/5/2009
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Section 7.1.4, Legacy Receive Descriptor Format and Section 7.2.2, Transmit
Descriptors. Recommendation regarding legacy descriptors changed to ‘must not be
used’ from ‘should not be used.’
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2.43
7/5/2009
Internal release for test and review.
10/2/2009
MACSec capability exposed. You must have a MACSec-ready switch in order to com-
plete the ecosystem and make use of MACSec functionality.
Maintenance issues addressed:
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Section 7.2.4.7.2, TCP/IP/UDP Headers for the Subsequent Frames and Section
7.2.4.7.3, TCP/IP/UDP Headers for the Last Frame updated to document UDP fields.
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Section 7.3.3.2, Interrupt Moderation and Section 8.8.12, Interrupt Throttle - EITR
(0x01680 + 4*n [n = 0...24]; R/W) updated to correct minor issues; redundant
data removed.
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Table 7-9, VLAN Tag Field Layout (for 802.1q Packet) - Note added to table that
clarifies usage:
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NOTE: This table is relevant only if VMVIR.VLANA = 00b (use descriptor
command) for the queue.
Intel® 82576EB GbE Controller
Datasheet
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Revision: 2.63
December 2011