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.

  • Bug fixes

Backward Compatibility Breaking Changes in this Release

The following changes that were introduced starting DOCA 2.9.1 (BSP 4.9.1) and BMC 24.10-LTSU1 break backward compatibility and therefore require customers to upgrade all DOCA software components to the latest available version to avoid anomalous behavior:

Software Component

Change Description

BMC

IPMB channel relocation – The IPMB channel used by the BlueField BMC to retrieve data from the BlueField Arm is now utilizing a dedicated I2C interface. This change is aimed at improving the serviceability of the interface.

FlexIO

Fixing a mandatory hardware limitation found the updated firmware version breaks backward compatibility between the software layers

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