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Authored by arybchik on May 11 2016, 6:35 AM.
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Summary

It's the same on Medford as Huntington.

Multicast chaining is not always on, even with Medford, as it's not
supported by low latency firmware.

Unlike the Linux driver, we don't need to support virtulization with
firmware released before support for multicast chaining was added.

Submitted by: Mark Spender <mspender at solarflare.com>
Sponsored by: Solarflare Communications, Inc.
MFC after: 1 week

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arybchik retitled this revision from to sfxge(4): comment on when we assume multicast chaining is available.
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