Planning to downgrade the XXV710 firmware version from 24.x to 23.x on DELL R630 server

[Prabhanjanreddy]

Hi Experts,

Planning to downgrade the XXV710 firmware version from 24.x to 23.x on DELL R630 server.

Here is the NIC Details:
Ethernet Controller XXV710 for 25GbE SFP28

BIOS version: 2.19.0

ethtool -i eth29
driver: i40e
version: 2.22.18
firmware-version: 9.54 0x8000fb28 24.0.5
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:81:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes


Thanks

[Prabhanjanreddy · Accepted solution]

Hi Experts,

is it possible to do the downgrade of firmware version?


I have tried with using .BIN file also using IDRAC from DELL server approach.

As i have tried do the downgrade of firmware version from 24.x to 23.x , 22.x, 19.x and 18.x but its not doing the downgrade and give below error message:



dmesg -T | grep -i i40e
[Mon Dec 15 06:56:40 2025] i40e: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[Mon Dec 15 06:56:40 2025] i40e: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[Mon Dec 15 06:56:40 2025] i40e: externally supported module, setting X kernel taint flag.
[Mon Dec 15 06:56:40 2025] i40e: Intel(R) 40-10 Gigabit Ethernet Connection Network Driver - version 2.22.18


journalctl -b | grep firmware
kernel: Spectre V2 : Enabling Restricted Speculation for firmware calls
kernel: GHES: APEI firmware first mode is enabled by APEI bit and WHEA _OSC.
kernel: megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: firmware supports msix        : (96)
 kernel: megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: Current firmware supports maximum commands: 928         LDIO threshold: 0
 kernel: megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: firmware crash dump        : no
 kernel: megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: Max firmware commands: 927 shared with default hw_queues = 40 poll_queues 0
 iscsiadm[4331]: iscsiadm: Could not get list of targets from firmware. (err 21)

Or Please let me know the what are the possible ways to do so.


Thanks
Prabhanjan Reddy