Document Conventions and Related Documents

MFT

NVIDIA^® Firmware tools

MST

Software tools and it is the name of the script that starts/stops the driver used by MFT tools

mlx

Extension of the text firmware file which contains all the firmware content

ini

Extension of the firmware configuration file which is in INI format and contains card specific configurations.

bin

Extension of the binary firmware file which is a combination of INI and mlx file

MFA

Extension of the a firmware file that contains several binary files of firmware for different cards/boards

4th Generation ICs/
Group I of ICs

Contains the following devices:

• ConnectX-3

• ConnectX-3 Pro

5th Generation ICs/
Group II of ICs

Contains the following devices and newer:

• Connect-IB

• Switch-IB

• Switch-IB 2

• NVIDIA Spectrum

• NVIDIA Spectrum-2

• ConnectX-4

• ConnectX-4 Lx

• ConnectX-5

• ConnectX-5 Ex

• ConnectX-6

• ConnectX-6 Dx

• NVIDIA BlueField

MFT web page

Firmware Release Notes

DOCA-Host

WinOF/WinOF-2

VMware

FreeBSD