Switchtec-user v0.8.5 release for Linux platform

In this release

This is the release of switchtec-user v0.8.5 utility, which includes the following features.

• List all switchtec devices
• A simple ncurses GUI that shows salient information for the switch
• Show status for each port on all partitions
• Measure bandwidth and latency for each port
• Display and wait on event occurrences
• Setup and show event counters for various types of events
• Dump firmware logs
• Send a hard reset command to the switch
• Update and readback firmware
• Toggle the active and inactive firmware partition
• Display firmware image version and CRC info
• Show switchtec die temperature
• Test if switchtec interface is working
• Global Address Space Access

Known issues

F/W download issue

• Description
  If a F/W download is in progress, another execution of switchtec-user utility would result in unexpected behaviors.

• Workaround
  Please do not execute another instance of switchtec-user utility when a F/W download is in progress.