Document Revision History

Rev 4.8.0 – August 14, 2024

Added:

• Section "Ubuntu Password Policy"

• Section "RShim Ownership"

• Page "Deploying BlueField Software Using BFB with PXE"

• Page "Deploying BlueField Software Using ISO with PXE"

• Page "Customizing BlueField Software Deployment Using bf.cfg"

• Note on host type interoperability limitation to "Multi-host"

• Troubleshooting page ""

Updated:

• Page "Deploying BlueField Software Using PXE"

• Step 2 under section "Installing Local Repo Package for Host Dependencies"

• The note at the top of the "fTPM over OP-TEE" page

• Section "Zero-trust Mode"

Rev 4.7.0 – May 06, 2024

Added:

• Section "UEFI Menu"

• Section "Redfish"

• Section "BlueField SR-IOV"

• Section "" and updated graceful shutdown guidance with pointers to this section

Updated:

• Section "Software Installation and Upgrade" with bf-fwbundle-<version>.prod.bfb information

• Section "BFB Installation"

• Section "Changing Default Credentials for 'ubuntu' User via bf.cfg"

• Section "Configuring NIC Mode on BlueField-3 Using Redfish"

Rev 4.6.0 – February 08, 2024

Added:

• Page "Default Passwords and Policies"

• Section "VF Msix_num/Queue Requirement"

Updated:

• Section "Customization of BFB Installation Using bf.cfg"

• Section "bf.cfg Parameters"

• Section "Configuring NIC Mode on BlueField-3 Using Redfish"

• Section "Configuring NIC Mode on BlueField-3 from UEFI"

• Section "NIC Mode for BlueField-2"

• Section "Default Ports and OVS Configuration"

• Section "SystemD Service"

Rev 4.5.0 – December 12, 2023

Added:

• Section "Updating Software Using Redfish"

• Section "Sanitizing DPU eMMC and SSD Storage"

• Section "How to perform graceful shutdown"

• Section "BFB installation monitoring"

Updated:

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

• Section "RShim Logging"

• Section "NIC Mode"

• Section "Enabling OVS-DPDK Hardware Offload"

• Section "Enabling IPsec Packet Offload"

• Section "Setting IPSec Packet Offload Using strongSwan"

• Section "Running strongSwan Example"

• Section "Building strongSwan"

• Section "IPsec Packet Offload and OVS Offload"

Rev 4.2.2 – October 24, 2023

Updated:

• Section "NIC Mode"

Rev 4.2.0 – August 10, 2023

Updated:

• Step 3 under section "PXE Server Preparations"

• Section "Removing Previously Installed DOCA Runtime Packages"

• Section "NIC Mode"

• Sections "Connection Tracking With NAT" and "Querying Connection Tracking Offload Status" with conntack command for Ubuntu 22.04 kernels

• Section "LAG Configuration"

• Section "SystemD Service"

• Page "QoS Configuration"

• Section "bf.cfg Parameters"

Rev 4.0.2 – May 08, 2023

Added:

• Page "SoC Management Interface"

• Page "Legal Notices and 3rd Party Licenses"

• Section "Unable to load BL2, BL2R, or PSC image"

Updated:

• Section "Default Ports and OVS Configuration" with new step 2

• Section "BlueField Linux Drivers" with gpio-mlxbf3, mlxbf-ptm, pwr-mlxbf, and pinctrl-mlxbf

• Page "Updating BlueField 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"

• Section "VirtIO-net PF Device Configuration" by removing ECPF_ESWITCH_MANAGER and ECPF_PAGE_SUPPLIER from step 4

• Section "Virtio-net SR-IOV VF Device Configuration" by removing ECPF_ESWITCH_MANAGER and ECPF_PAGE_SUPPLIER from step 7.b

• Section "vDPA over VirtIO Full Emulation"

Rev 3.9.3 – November 02, 2022

Added:

• Section "DHCP Client Configuration"

• Section "Updating BlueField 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 "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"

Last updated: February 25, 2026