DOCA Release Notes
NVIDIA DOCA SDK release notes containing information on new features, software interoperability, and known issues.
The DOCA release notes contain the following subpages:
BlueField-3 devices are not supported with MLNX_OFED as the host driver. They must use DOCA-Host.
BlueField DPUs with the following SKUs require an 8-pin ATX power supply cable connection when powering up. Without this connection to the power supply cable, the device will not complete the power-on procedure and will not function properly.
B3220 DPUs – 900-9D3B6-00CV-AA0 and 900-9D3B6-00SV-AA0
B3240 DPUs – 900-9D3B6-00CN-AB0 and 900-9D3B6-00SN-AB0
B3210 DPUs – 900-9D3B6-00CC-AA0 and 900-9D3B6-00SC-AA0
B3210E DPUs – 900-9D3B6-00CC-EA0 and 900-9D3B6-00SC-EA0
Refer to the DOCA Installation Guide for Linux for information on:
Setting up the DOCA SDK on your BlueField networking platform or SmartNIC
Supported BlueField platforms
By default, installing DOCA profiles with standard Linux tools (yum, apt) installs both doca-runtime and doca-devel (previously doca-sdk).
doca-runtimeincludes all components, libraries, drivers, and tools used in a production environment by a DOCA admindoca-develincludes all components, libraries, drivers, and tools used for development, including reference applications, compilers, etc.
Uplink/Adapter Card | Driver Name | Uplink Speed |
BlueField-2 | mlx5 | |
BlueField |
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ConnectX-7 | ||
ConnectX-6 Lx |
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ConnectX-6 Dx | ||
ConnectX-6 | ||
ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex |
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ConnectX-4 Lx |
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ConnectX-4 |
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Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode. ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩
Speed that supports PAM4 mode only. ↩
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. ↩
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