SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 Inbox Driver Documentation
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 Inbox Driver Documentation
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General Support

General Support

Supported Uplinks to Servers

This version supports the following uplinks to servers.

Uplink/Adapter Card

Driver Name

Uplink Speed

BlueField-2

mlx5

  • InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2

BlueField

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE

ConnectX-7

  • InfiniBand: EDR, HDR100, HDR, NDR200, NDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE3, 400GbE

ConnectX-6 Lx

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2

ConnectX-6 Dx

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE2

ConnectX-6

  • InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR100, HDR

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE2

ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE

ConnectX-4 Lx

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE

ConnectX-4

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 56GbE1, 100GbE

Innova™ IPsec EN

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 40GbE

Connect-IB®

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR10, FDR

ConnectX-3/ConnectX-3 Pro

mlx4

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR10, FDR

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 40GbE and 56GbE1

  1. 56GbE is an NVIDIA proprietary link speed and can be achieved while connecting an NVIDIA adapter card to NVIDIA SX10XX switch series or when connecting an NVIDIA adapter card to another NVIDIA adapter card.

  2. Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode.

  3. Speed that supports PAM4 mode only.


  • BlueField is supported as a standard ConnectX-5 Ethernet NIC only.

  • BlueField-2 is supported as a standard ConnectX-6 Dx Ethernet NIC. On the DPU, BlueField-2 is only supported as technical preview (i.e., the feature is not fully supported for production). See also: https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15-SP4/index.html section 2.8.1.2.

  • ConnectX-7 is only supported as technical preview (i.e., the feature is not fully supported for production).

Supported Adapter Card Firmware Versions

This SLES15 driver supports the following NVIDIA network adapter cards firmware versions.

Adapter Card

Recommended Firmware Version

BlueField-2

24.33.1048

BlueField

18.33.1048

Connect-IB

10.16.1002

ConnectX-7

28.33.2028

ConnectX-6 Lx

26.33.1048

ConnectX-6 Dx

22.33.1048

ConnectX-6

20.33.1048

ConnectX-5

16.33.1048

ConnectX-4 Lx

14.32.1010

ConnectX-4

12.28.2006

ConnectX-3/ConnectX-3 Pro

2.42.5000

SR-IOV Support

Driver

Support

mlx4_core, mlx4_en, mlx4_ib

Ethernet
InfiniBand: Technical Preview

mlx5_core (includes Ethernet functionality), mlx5_ib

Ethernet
InfiniBand: Technical Preview

 RoCE Support

Driver

Support

mlx4—RoCE v1/v2

Yes

mlx5—RoCE v1/v2

Yes

VXLAN Support

Driver

Support

mlx4—VXLAN offload

Yes

mlx5—VXLAN offload

Yes (without RSS)

Open vSwitch Hardware Offloads Support

Driver

Support

mlx4

No

mlx5

Yes

DPDK Support

Driver

Support

mlx4

NVIDIA PMD is enabled by default.

mlx5

NVIDIA PMD is enabled by default.

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