Changes and New Features

General

MFT v4.35.0 introduces support for the NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, making it the first GA MFT release to enable ConnectX-9.

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Changed payload compression method for DEB and RPM packages to gzip format.

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fwctl

Added support for fwctl interface. 

Linux Kernel v6.8 and above that has:

• fwctl subsystem support

• mlx5_core driver built/available in Kernel

MST

Added support to display STATE column when running "mst status -v" command.

This column will be used for recovery indication: for devices in recovery mode "recovery" will be printed.

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DMA

Added support for a new feature which detects when DMA Protection is enabled and avoid using DMA in that case.

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mlxlink

Added a new column to the show_links table to reflect the PCIE link status (UP\DN).

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Added support for a new field in show_plr flag to reflect the operational PLR state.

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Added support for test mode on switches where the modules are not in firmware control.

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Added support for giving dbdf information instead of just bdf when running mlxlink -d <dev> —port_type PCIE —show_links tool.

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Bug Fixes

See MFT Bug Fixes in this Version.

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