[Bug 279245] igc(4) I226 (and I225) TX hangups

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279245

--- Comment #2 from Dr. Uwe Meyer-Gruhl <freebsd_email@congenio.de> ---
(In reply to john from comment #1)
Interesting. I thought that there was no firmware for these adapters at all and
that the revision was all that separated generations. Do you happen to know if
the NIC firmware is contained in the motherboard BIOS or not changeable at all?

Alas, I cannot try the patch and check the version, since I lack means to build
my own kernel.

The reason I am asking is that the first link I referenced says something about
Asus having released both a BIOS and a driver update for their Z790 Kingpin
boards which seems to fix the issue (which in this case, was the micro-hangs,
indicating that not only the full hang, but also the underlying hardware
problem may have been fixed). If this is true, there may have been a NIC
firmware update contained in the new BIOS.

I have found that for my hardware, Minisforum has just released a BIOS update
from version 1.17 (late 2023) to 1.22 (03/12/2024). I have installed it and
using it for two days now - so far without a hangup.

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