Networking NVIDIA BlueField BSP

Changes and New Features

For an archive of changes and features from previous releases, refer to Release Notes Change Log History.

NVIDIA® BlueField® DPUs support configuring network ports as either Ethernet only or InfiniBand only.

BlueField Platform Changes and New Features in 4.16.0

  • Added a dedicated SPDM measurement index for NIC mode attestation.

  • Improved DPU resilience to delayed or missing PCIe TLP responses from user applications.

  • Added an NVIDIA-signed Red Hat certificate capsule for Secure Boot with RHEL 10.

  • Added DOCA packages for OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 on RHCOS, built with the RHEL 10 toolchain.

  • Added x86 support for SLES 15.7 and 16 across DOCA and Spectrum-X components.

  • Added deferred updates for BlueField software and firmware, allowing updates to be staged while services continue running and activated on reboot.

  • Added optional trace-enabled packages for supported DOCA SDK libraries.

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