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This section includes history of bug fixes of 3 major releases back. For older releases history, please refer to the relevant firmware versions Release Notes in https://docs.mellanox.com/category/adapterfw.

Internal Ref.Issue
3217896



Description: Fixed RDE PATCH operation status code reported in case the property is "read-only".

Keywords: RDE

Discovered in Version: 20.35.1012

Fixed in Release: 20.35.2000

3241357



Description: Fixed an issue in MCTP-over-PCIe, where the VDM message with the type Route-to-Root Complex, the target ID was not set as 0x0. 

Keywords: MCTP-over-PCIe, VDM message

Discovered in Version: 20.35.1012

Fixed in Release: 20.35.2000

3215393



Description: Fixed an issue that caused the virtual QoS mechanism to stop traffic from reaching the full line rate of 200GbE on each direction when LAG was enabled.

Keywords: Virtual QoS mechanism, 200GbE, LAG

Discovered in Version: 20.35.1012

Fixed in Release: 20.35.2000

Internal Ref.Issue
3227873



Description: Fixed an issue that caused RDE (Redfish) PATCH operation to LLDPTransmit properties "ManagementAddressIPv4", "ManagementAddressIPv6" and "ManagementAddressMAC" to be applied only in the first attempt but failed in the next.

Keywords: RDE (Redfish) PATCH operation

Discovered in Version: 20.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 20.35.1012

3163578



Description: Fixed an issue that caused the RXT E2E inflight to hang.

Keywords: RXT E2E inflight

Discovered in Version: 20.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 20.35.1012

3126528



Description: RDMA partition is now reported only if NIC+RDMA mode is enabled.

Keywords: RDMA partition

Discovered in Version: 20.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 20.35.1012

3184625



Description: Fixed an issue that caused PLDM AEN event receiver media to be changed unexpectedly and destination BDF to be overridden with garbage when some PLDM packet were received from the SMBus layer.

Keywords: PLDM AEN event receiver media

Discovered in Version: 20.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 20.35.1012

3210116



Description: Fixed a wrong address issue for XRQ Event Backend Controller Px Syndrome event in multi-host system during FLR.

Keywords: XRQ Event Backend Controller Px Syndrome

Discovered in Version: 20.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 20.35.1012

3194359



Description: Fixed PCIe SKP OS generation interval for Gen1 and Gen2.

Keywords: PCIe SKP

Discovered in Version: 20.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 20.35.1012

3147648



Description: Fixed an issue that prevented InfiniBand L2 QP from receiving RDMA traffic.

Keywords: RDMA traffic

Discovered in Version: 20.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 20.35.1012

2824427



Description: Running with a debug firmware reduces security as if token was applied.

Keywords: Debug Firmware

Discovered in Version: 20.33.1048

Fixed in Release: 20.35.1012




Internal Ref.Issue
3134894



Description: Fixed an issue where set_flow_table_entry failed when aso_flow_meter action was used. 

Keywords: ASO Flow Meter, FW Steering

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.34.1002

3059379



Description: Added "Command Unsupported" response code in cases when running the MCTP control command "Get Vendor Defined Messages Supported", and there were no supported VDMs.

Keywords: MCTP control command

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.34.1002

2994292



Description: Fixed a race condition occured between the duplicate read and QP commands (2RST, 2ERR and Destroy) in the signature that caused the command to hang.

Keywords: Race condition

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.34.1002

2862173




Description: Added support for InfiniBand MAD packets capturing in RX RDMA Steering table.

Keywords: MAD, Steering

Discovered in Version: 20.33.1048

Fixed in Release: 20.34.1002

2665773



Description: Added 50 Usec delay during  PML1 exit to avoid any PCIe replay timer timeout.

Keywords: PCIe. PML1

Discovered in Version: 20.33.1048

Fixed in Release: 20.34.1002

3023847



Description: Enabled sending and receiving traffic with a different LID than the host LID in MetroX applications.

Keywords: MetroX, LID based

Discovered in Version: 20.33.1048

Fixed in Release: 20.34.1002

Internal Ref.Issue

2435442



Description: RDMA write may experience performance degradation when working with Adaptive Routing and DCT half-handshake mode.

Keywords: DC, DCT, AR

Discovered in Version: 20.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 20.33.1048

2858666



Description: Fixed an issue that ignored the default value of TX_SCHEDULER_BURST when its value in the ini was different than "0".

Keywords: TX_SCHEDULER_BURST, NVCONFIG

Discovered in Version: 20.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 20.33.1048

2802943



Description: Implemented SLD detection code. Surprise Down Error Reporting Capable value was changed from 1 to 0 in boards where the downstream perst was not controlled thus causing SLD detection not to function properly.

Keywords: SLD detection, Surprise Down Error Reporting Capable

Discovered in Version: 20.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 20.33.1048

2513453



Description: Fixed rare lanes skew issue that caused CPU to timeout in Rec.idle.

Keywords: PCIe

Discovered in Version: 20.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 20.33.1048

2850198



Description: Fixed RDMA_WRITE traffic performance degradation that occured when working with DC on Adaptive Routing network.

Keywords: Performance, DC, AR

Discovered in Version: 20.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 20.33.1048

2951894



Description: Fixed bad cache invalidations of destroyed QPs.

Keywords: destroy_qp

Discovered in Version: 20.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 20.33.1048

2801850



Description: Fixed a rare case where asserts and ext_synd appeared in dmesg after performing driver restart. 

Keywords: Driver restart

Discovered in Version: 20.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 20.33.1048

2822046



Description: Fixed an issue related to host isolation on multi-host systems.

Keywords: Multi-host systems, isolation

Discovered in Version: 20.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 20.33.1048

2860409



Description: Enabled delay drop for hairpin packets. If a hairpin QP is created with delay_drop_en enabled, the feature will be enabled across all GVMIs, based on the delay drop status.

Keywords: Hairpin delay drop

Discovered in Version: 20.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 20.33.1048

Internal Ref.Issue

2796324




Description: Fixed an issue that resulted in firmware getting stuck and causing unexpected behavior when connecting an optical transceiver that support RXLOS, and the remote side port was down.

Keywords: cables, RXLOS

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2748800



Description: Fixed an issue that caused the link status to be reported incorrectly and consequently caused the link to go down due to the wrong definition of the RX_LOS polarity in the INI. 

Keywords: RX_LOS polarity

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2784304




Description: Fixed an issue that prevented the system from creating more than 128K QPs.

Keywords: QP

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2798556





Description: Modified the Effective BER calculation method. Due to this, the value of the Effective BER will be slightly higher, however the link quality remains the same as prior to this change.

Note: There is no change in the Symbol BER, it is the same as prior to this change.

Keywords: BER

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2797035




Description: Removed a wrong indication of the PCIe link down in the AER registers on PCIe switch upstream port.

Keywords: PCIe

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2678394




Description: Limited the external loopback speed according to the used module's capabilities.

Keywords: Cables

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2733080





Description: This firmware version includes the following PCIe changes:

  • Fixed the ACS Port Number field in DSPs and ACS Egress Control Vector field in DSPs
  • Added support for VSC on USP of PCIe Switch
  • Fixed the mapping of Legacy Interrupts in the PCIe Switch
  • Fixed MRRS & MPS configurations in DSPs
Keywords: PCIe

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2823281




Description: Fixed an issue that resulted in wrong RNR timeout when trying to set it during the rts2rts_qp transition.

Keywords: RNR timeout

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2038112






Description: Fixed an issue that cause the flash frequency on boot to be lower than expected (under 50Mhz) by enabling the firmware to increase it on boot2 to normal frequency.

Note: On boards that use Winbond flash, the firmware is blocked if using a firmware that does not include this fix. 

Keywords: Flash frequency, firmware boot, Windbond flash

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2798627




Description: Added support for DSFP AOC (CMIS) v4 when error code is not reported by the module.

Keywords: Cables

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2740158



Description: Fixed a race between DC QP flush and DC packets that led to stuck slices in the hardware. To avoid such situation, firmware keeps the TCU drop set until QP flush is done.

Keywords: DC

Discovered in Version: 20.31.1014

Fixed in Release: 20.32.1010

2648336



Description: Disabled the CNP counter “rp_cnp_ignored " (triggered by OOS (out-of-sequence)) when all ports are IB. 

Note: For mixed IB/ETH scenario, the behavior depends on the RoCE configuration, the counter on the IB port may still increase but will not affect the regular use.

Keywords: CNP counter, IB

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2178949






Description: Improved PortXmitWait IB counter accuracy.

Keywords: Counters

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2641734






Description: Fixed the rate select mechanism in QSFP modules.

Keywords: Cables

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2600783






Description: Fixed classification issues for "Passive" cables to be more robust. 

Keywords: Cables

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2574322






Description: Fixed an issue that occasionally caused some performance issues related to RC QPs using E2E-credits (not connected to SRQ and doing send/receive traffic) when the ROCE_ACCL tx_window was enabled.

Keywords: Bandwidth, performance

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2391109






Description: Fixed an issue that caused a fatal error, and eventually resulted in the HCA hanging when a packet was larger than a strided receive WQE that was being scattered. 

Keywords: Strided RQ, MTU

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2569999






Description: Fixed a rare issue that caused RX pipe to hang.

Keywords: RX pipe

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2621704






Description: Fixed the resource number size (a 64 bit number) to avoid a scenario where it overwrote it with a 32 bit number and erased the high bits when de-allocating the resource number.

In this scenario, when two resource numbers had identical low 32 bits, and because the high bits were cleared, it resulted in the same idx. Consequently, when two idxes were identical, then it freed the same idx twice. 

Keywords: Resource number size, free_4k page

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2619161






Description: Initialized the rate table in the static configuration so it will be configured at the link-not-up scenarios.

Keywords: RoCE, static configuration, rate table

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2589430






Description: CRT_DCR with index larger than 1 << 21 can collide with the CRT_SW_RESERVED address.

Keywords: DCR

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2447160




Description: In InfiniBand non-virtualization system, due to a corrupted steering root, traffic fails after a  warm reboot.

Keywords: Steering, Traffic

Discovered in Version: 20.30.1004

Fixed in Release: 20.31.1014

2684071



Description: Changing the default host chaining buffer size or WQE size (HOST_CHAINING_DESCRIPTORS, HOST_CHAINING_TOTAL_BUFFER_SIZE) using NVconfig might result in driver initialization failure. 

Keywords: Host chaining

Discovered in Version: 20.29.2002

Fixed in Release: 20.30.1004

2507096



Description: Removed the option to create unnecessary internal CNP operation for the Lossy ADP retransmission feature.

Keywords: RoCE, Lossy, Adp_retrans

Discovered in Version: 20.29.1016

Fixed in Release: 20.30.1004

2447334



Description: Fixed an issue related to unused port LEDs when no cable is connected to the adapter card. 

Keywords: Cables, LEDs

Discovered in Version: 20.29.1016

Fixed in Release: 20.30.1004

2444837



Description: Set the cap to 0 for high index functions to avoid too many parallel VF NODNIC functions.

Keywords: NODNIC, VF, ETH PXE

Discovered in Version: 20.29.1016

Fixed in Release: 20.30.1004