Document Conventions and Related Documents

Term

Description

MFT

NVIDIA® Firmware tools

MST

Software tools and it is the name of the script that starts/stops the driver used by MFT tools

mlx

Extension of the text firmware file which contains all the firmware content

ini

Extension of the firmware configuration file which is in INI format and contains card specific configurations.

bin

Extension of the binary firmware file which is a combination of INI and mlx file

MFA

Extension of the a firmware file that contains several binary files of firmware for different cards/boards

4th Generation ICs/
Group I of ICs

Contains the following devices:

  • ConnectX-3

  • ConnectX-3 Pro

  • SwitchX

  • SwitchX-2

5th Generation ICs/
Group II of ICs

Contains the following devices and newer:

  • Connect-IB

  • Switch-IB

  • Switch-IB 2

  • Spectrum

  • ConnectX-4

  • ConnectX-4 Lx

  • ConnectX-5

  • ConnectX-5 Ex

Reference Documents and Downloads

Location

MFT web page

http://www.mellanox.com > Products > Firmware Tools > MFT - Firmware Tools.

Firmware images and their Release Notes

http://www.mellanox.com/page/firmware_download

MLNX_OFED

http://www.mellanox.com > Products > Software > InfiniBand/VPI Drivers > Linux Driver.

WinOF/WinOF-2

http://www.mellanox.com > Products > Software > InfiniBand/VPI Drivers > Windows Driver.

VMware

http://www.mellanox.com > Products > Software > InfiniBand/VPI Drivers > VMware Driver.

FreeBSD

http://www.mellanox.com > Products > Software > InfiniBand/VPI Drivers > FreeBSD Driver.

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