I've noticed RX packet drops on my PCI card (InDroppedDma was too high). I suspected that it was because of a firmware problem, so I decided to try to find a way to update it.
There was no official linux firmware updater, however I found an unofficial one published some time ago, which worked well when combined with the latest firmware.
Use at your own risk, however I didn't experience any problems.
- Download the firmware updater tool for linux from here. The firmware version that comes with it is pretty old, so we'll download a new one on the next step and combine them together.
- Download the actual firmware from the official website here (choose "Marvel Drivers" -> "Windows" (important!) -> "AQC107". Download the "Marvell AQtion Firmware updater Utility" file.
- Unpack both archives, move the ./atlflashupdate file from the first folder into the second (windows firmware) folder.
- Run ./atlflashupdate
cd ~
mkdir flash_update
cd flash_update
wget https://pmeerw.net/blog/images/atlflashupdate-1.8.0_AQC107-FW-3.1.109.tgz
wget https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/drivers/MarvellFlashUpdate_1.80.3_3.1.121a.zip
tar zfx atlflashupdate-1.8.0_AQC107-FW-3.1.109.tgz
unzip MarvellFlashUpdate_1.80.3_3.1.121a.zip
mv ./atlflashupdate ./MarvellFlashUpdate_1.80.3_3.1.121a
cd ./MarvellFlashUpdate_1.80.3_3.1.121a
./atlflashupdate