Release Notes
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Revision

Date

Description

July 31, 2022

Initial release of this document version.

Warning

As of MLNX_EN version 5.1-1.0.4.0, the following are no longer supported.

  • ConnectX-3

  • ConnectX-3 Pro

  • Connect-IB

  • RDMA experimental verbs libraries (mlnx_lib)

To utilize the above devices/libraries, refer to version 4.9 long-term support (LTS).

Release Notes contain the following sections:

Supported NIC Speeds

The Linux Driver operates across all NVIDIA network adapter solutions supporting 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, 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

  1. 56GbE is an NVIDIA proprietary link speed and can be achieved while connecting an NVIDIA adapter card to NVIDIASX10XX 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.

Package Contents

Package

Revision

Licenses

clusterkit

1.7.421-1.57102

BSD

dapl

2.1.10.1.mlnx-OFED.4.9.0.1.4.57102

Dual GPL/BSD/CPL

dpcp

1.1.29-1.57102

Proprietary

dump_pr

1.0-5.11.0.MLNX20220713.g58a37c9.57102

GPLv2 or BSD

hcoll

4.8.3217-1.57102

Proprietary

ibdump

6.0.0-1.57102

BSD2+GPL2

ibsim

0.10-1.57102

GPLv2 or BSD

ibutils2

2.1.1-0.151.MLNX20220720.gcd746c3.57102

Mellanox Confidential and Proprietary

iser

5.7-OFED.5.7.1.0.2.1

GPLv2

isert

5.7-OFED.5.7.1.0.2.1

GPLv2

kernel-mft

4.21.0-99

Dual BSD/GPL

knem

1.1.4.90mlnx1-OFED.5.6.0.1.6.1

BSD and GPLv2

libvma

9.6.4-1

GPLv2 or BSD

libxlio

1.3.5-1

GPLv2 or BSD

mlnx-en

5.7-1.0.2.0.ge78f334

GPLv2

mlnx-ethtool

5.18-1.57102

GPL

mlnx-iproute2

5.18.0-1.57102

GPL

mlnx-nfsrdma

5.7-OFED.5.7.1.0.2.1

GPLv2

mlnx-nvme

5.7-OFED.5.7.1.0.2.1

GPLv2

mlnx-ofa_kernel

5.7-OFED.5.7.1.0.2.1

GPLv2

mlnx-tools

5.2.0-0.57102

GPLv2

mlx-steering-dump

1.0.0-0.57102

GPLv2

mpi-selector

1.0.3-1.57102

BSD

mpitests

3.2.20-de56b6b.57102

BSD

mstflint

4.16.1-2.57102

GPL/BSD

multiperf

3.0-3.0.57102

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

ofed-docs

5.7-OFED.5.7.1.0.2

GPL/BSD

ofed-scripts

5.7-OFED.5.7.1.0.2

GPL/BSD

openmpi

4.1.5a1-1.57102

BSD

opensm

5.12.0.MLNX20220721.3a88a9b-0.1.57102

GPLv2 or BSD

openvswitch

2.17.2-1.57102

ASL 2.0 and LGPLv2+ and SISSL

perftest

4.5-0.17.g6f25f23.57102

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

rdma-core

56mlnx40-1.57102

GPLv2 or BSD

rshim

2.0.6-13.gd253708

GPLv2

sharp

3.0.0.MLNX20220713.ea604271-1.57102

Proprietary

sockperf

3.8-0.git31ee322aa82a.57102

BSD

srp

5.7-OFED.5.7.1.0.2.1

GPLv2

ucx

1.14.0-1.57102

BSD

xpmem

2.6.3-1.57102

GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1

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