Document Revision History

Rev 3.9.8 – July 04, 2024

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Rev 3.9.5 – July 03, 2023

Updated:

• Page "Bug Fixes In This Version"

Rev 3.9.3.1 – November 30, 2022

Updated:

• Page "Updating DPU Software Packages Using Standard Linux Tools"

• Page "UEFI Secure Boot"

• Section "IPsec Hardware Offload: Full Offload" with Canonical note

• Section "How to upgrade ConnectX firmware from Arm side"

Rev 3.9.3 – November 02, 2022

Added:

• Section "DHCP Client Configuration"

• Section "Updating DPU Software Packages Using Standard Linux Tools"

• Section "Creating Transitional Hotplug VirtIO-net PF Device"

• Section "Transitional VirtIO-net VF Device Support"

Updated:

• Section "Upgrading Boot Software" by specifying that the "Reset EFI Variables" action also wipes the BOOT option variables and secure boot keys

• Section "Building Your Own BFB Installation Image"

• Section "BlueField Linux Drivers"

• Section "Configuring Uplink MTU"

• Section "Disabling Host Networking PFs" by adding instructions for reactivating host networking for single-port DPUs

• Section "Configuring RegEx Acceleration on BlueField-2"

• Section "Virtio-net SR-IOV VF Device Configuration"

• PXE_DHCP_CLASS_ID in section "bf.cfg Parameters"

Removed:

• Step 7 in section "Configuring Host Server Side"

• Separated Mode from "Modes of Operation"

Rev 3.9.2 – August 02, 2022

Added:

• Section "Updating NVConfig Params"

• Page "System Configuration and Services"

• Section "Enrolling New NVIDIA Certificates"

• Section "bf.cfg Parameters"

• Support for OpenSSL version 3.0.2 in section "PKA Use Cases"

• Section "How to change the default network configuration during BFB installation"

Updated:

• Section "Firmware Upgrade"

• Section "Customizations During BFB Installation"

• Section "UEFI System Configuration"

• Page "Host-side Interface Configuration"

• Section "Enrolling Certificates Using Capsule"

• Section "NIC Mode" with supported MLNX_OFED versions

• Section "PKA Use Cases" with support for OpenSSL version 3.0.2

Rev 3.9 – May 03, 2022

Added:

• Section "GRUB Password Protection"

• New note under step 2 in section "Default Ports and OVS Configuration"

• Section "BlueField Linux Drivers"

• Canonical db certificate to section "Existing DPU Certificates"

• New note under section "Enrolling Certificates Using Capsule"

• New power cycle note under section "Enabling Host Restriction"

• New power cycle note under section "Disabling Host Restriction"

• Section "NIC Mode"

• Section "LAG on Multi-host"

• New power cycle note under section "Disabling Host Networking PFs"

• Section "PKA Prerequisites"

• Section "OVS IPsec"

• Section "Rate Limiting VF Group"

• Note to section "User Frontend"

• Section "Controller Live Update"

Updated:

• Code block in section "Customizations During BFB Installation"

• Section "Building Your Own BFB Installation Image"

• Section "Configuring VXLAN Tunnel"

• Step 2 in section "Prerequisites"

• Section "Enabling IPsec Full Offload"

• Code block under step 1 in section "LAG Configuration"

Rev 3.8.5 – January 19, 2022

Added:

• Section "Another backend already attached"

Updated:

• Section "Ensure RShim Running on Host"

Rev 3.8.0 – December 06, 2021

Added:

• Section "Ensure RShim Running on Host"

• Section "Verify BFB is Installed"

• Page "Deploying BlueField Software Using BFB from BMC"

• Page ""

• Page "Deploying NVIDIA Converged Accelerator"

• Section "Performance Data Collection Mechanisms"

• Section "Tile HNFNET Performance Module"

• Implicit mapping information to "Multi-Host"

• Diagram to "VirtIO-net Emulated Devices"

Updated:

• Organization of page "Deploying BlueField Software Using BFB from Host"

• Section "Changing Default Credentials Using bf.cfg"

• Section "Ubuntu Boot Time Optimizations"

• p#m# to enp#s#f#s# in "Verifying Connection from Host to BlueField"

• Section "Queue Affinity Mode"

• Section "Hash Mode"

• Section "Prerequisites"

• Section "Removing LAG Configuration"
  

• Section "Software Control and Commands"

• Supported options for virtnet.conf and examples in "SystemD Service"

• Section "User Frontend"

• sf_num value in "Controller Recovery"

• Section "Verifying Connection from Host to BlueField"

• Steps 1 and 2 in section "Creating Hotplug VirtIO-net Device"

• Section "Creating Virtio-net SR-IOV VF Devices"

• Section "RShim Troubleshooting and How-Tos"

Rev 3.7.1 – October 05, 2021

Added:

• Section "Customizations During BFB Installation"

• Page ""

• Page ""

• Section "LAG Modes"

• Page "Compression Acceleration"

Updated:

• Section "Ubuntu 20.04 with DOCA Runtime and DOCA Installation"

• Section "Default Credentials"

• Section "RShim Installation for RPM-based Distributions"

• Section "Supported ethtool Options for OOB Interface"

• Section "RShim Logging"

• Section "List UEFI Boot Options"

• Page "Modes of Operation"

• Section "Enabling OVS-DPDK Hardware Offload"

• Section "Configuring DPDK and Running TestPMD"

• Section "LAG Prerequisites"

• Section "Controller Recovery"

• Section "VirtIO-net PF Device Configuration"

• Section "Virtio-net SR-IOV VF Device Configuration"

• Section "

  Creating Virtio-net SR-IOV VF Devices

  "

• Section "How to use the UEFI boot menu"

Last updated: February 25, 2026