Document Revision History | NVIDIA BlueField BSP

Rev 4.9.2 – February 2025 LTSU2

Updated Updated bug fixes and known issues.

Rev 4.9.1 – December 06, 2024

Added:

Section "(4.9.4-LTSU4) Upgrading BlueField Software Components Using PLDM"

Updated:

Section "BlueField Image Types"

Rev 4.9.0 – October 31, 2024

Added:

Section "System Configuration Dump"
Section "Disabling IPMI from BlueField Arm to BMC"
Page "RAS"
Section "RShim Ownership"
Section "OOB VLAN"
Section "DHCP Client Configuration"
Section "Passing Arguments from BMC to DPU via Redfish"

Updated:

Section "Deploying BlueField Software Using PXE"
Section "Enroll Certificate into UEFI DB"

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"
Note on host type interoperability limitation to ""
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 "" page

Rev 4.7.0 – May 06, 2024

Added:

Section "UEFI Menu"
Section "Redfish"
Section ""
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"

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 "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 "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

N/A

Rev 4.2.0 – August 10, 2023

Updated:

Step 3 under section "PXE Server Preparations"
Section "Removing Previously Installed DOCA Runtime Packages"
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 ""
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 "Appendix - BlueField Boot Flow and BFB Format" by specifying that the "Reset EFI Variables" action also wipes the BOOT option variables and secure boot keys
Section "BlueField Linux Drivers"
Section ""
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"

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 "PKA Use Cases" with support for OpenSSL version 3.0.2

Rev 3.9.0 – 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 "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