Changes and New Features

All HCAs

Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise:
ConnectX-4/ConnectX-4 Lx/ConnectX-5/ConnectX-6/ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2

ConnectX-6 Dx and above

Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise:
ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2

ConnectX-6 and above

Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise:
ConnectX-6/ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2

ConnectX-5 and above

Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise:
ConnectX-5/ConnectX-6/ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2

ConnectX-4 and above

Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise:
ConnectX-4/ConnectX-4 Lx/ConnectX-5/ConnectX-6/ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2

Operating Systems

Added support for the following OSes:

• RHEL 8.10

• RHEL 9.4

• SLES15-SP6

• Debian 12.5

For further information, see Supported Operating Systems section

Embedded Components

Updated the versions of the following embedded component:

• MFT

• ConnectX adapter cards firmware

For further information, see Embedded Components section.

Bridge Offload

Enabled Bridge Offload in mlx5_core by default. A new option was added to the configure of mlnx_ofa_kernel to disable it:  "--without-bridge-offload". 

To use this option from "mlnxofedinstall --add-kernel-support" (kernel modules rebuilding), add the following to the command line:  "--kernel-extra-args --without-bridge-offload".

General

Bug fixes