BlueField-2 DPU Firmware Release Notes

Firmware Compatible Products

These are the release notes for the NVIDIA® BlueField-2 SmartNICs firmware. This firmware supports the following protocols:

  • InfiniBand - QDR, FDR, EDR, HDR100, HDR

  • Ethernet - 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE1, 100GbE1, 200GbE2, 400GbE

  • PCI Express 4.0, supporting backwards compatibility for v3.0, v2.0 and v1.1

1. Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode.

2. Speed that supports PAM4 mode only.

When connecting an NVIDIA-to-NVIDIA adapter card in ETH PAM4 speeds, Auto-Neg should always be enabled.

Supported Devices

Refer to the hardware documentation for the list of supported devices.

Driver Software, Tools and Switch Firmware

The following are the drivers’ software, tools, switch/HCA firmware versions tested that you can upgrade from or downgrade to when using this firmware version:


Supported Version

NVIDIA BlueField-2 Firmware

24.39.8002

/

24.39.5050

/

24.39.5050

 

BlueField DPU OS Software

4.5.3

MLNX_OFED

23.10-5.1.4.0

/

23.10-4.0.9.1

/

23.10-3.2.2.0

 

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

MLNX_EN (MLNX_OFED based code)

23.10-5.1.4.0

/

23.10-4.0.9.1

/

23.10-3.2.2.0

 

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

WinOF-2

23.10.51000

/

23.10.50000

/

23.7.50000

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

MFT

4.26.1-31

/

4.26.1-18

/

4.26.1-6

 

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

mstflint

4.26.1-31

/

4.26.1-18

/

4.26.1-6

 

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

FlexBoot

3.7.300

UEFI

14.32.17

MLNX-OS

3.10.5002 onwards

Cumulus

5.4 onwards

NVIDIA Quantum-2 Firmware

31.2012.1024

onwards

NVIDIA Quantum Firmware

27.2012.1010

onwards


Last updated: