Networking NVIDIA Networking Server-Side Documentation of Flexboot & UEFI

Changes and New Features - UEFI

For a list of old Changes and Features, please see Changes and New Features History.

Category

Changes

Rev. 

14.36.16

Networking 

UEFI support filters by default to drop all packets except for UDP/TCP/ICMP packets that are needed for boot. This feature can be disabled by the setting "Pxe Boot Filter" which is added to HII "Device Level Configuration".

Installed UEFI APIs (Protocols)

The following are the lists of UEFI APIs (protocols) installed over UEFI:

Driver handle

  • EFI Component name Protocol

  • EFI Component name 2 Protocol

  • EFI Diagnostics Protocol

  • EFI Diagnostics 2 Protocol

  • EFI Driver Health Protocol

PCI controller handle

  • EFI Driver binding protocol (driver start, stop, supported) installed by system UEFI on handle

Port handle
(child handle to PCI controller handle, one handle per port)

  • EFI Device Path Protocol

  • EFI Network Interface Identifier Protocol (UNDI)


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