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5.9-0.5.6.0: Document revision 1.0

February 2, 2023

Initial release of this document version.

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 CardDriver NameUplink Speed
BlueField-2mlx5
  • 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 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.

Package Contents 

Package

Revision

Licenses

clusterkit

1.8.429-1.59056

BSD

dapl

2.1.10.1.mlnx-OFED.4.9.0.1.5.59056

Dual GPL/BSD/CPL

dpcp

1.1.38-1.59056

BSD-3-Clause

dump_pr

1.0-1.MLNX20230110.gac314ef.59056

GPLv2 or BSD

hcoll

4.8.3221-1.59056

Proprietary

ibarr

0.1.3-1.59056

(GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause

ibdump

6.0.0-1.59056

BSD2+GPL2

ibsim

0.12-1.59056

GPLv2 or BSD

ibutils2

2.1.1-0.159.MLNX20230118.g1214769c.59056

Mellanox Confidential and Proprietary

iser

5.9-OFED.5.9.0.5.4.1

GPLv2

isert

5.9-OFED.5.9.0.5.4.1

GPLv2

kernel-mft

4.23.0-104

Dual BSD/GPL

knem

1.1.4.90mlnx1-OFED.4.9.6.0.0.1

BSD and GPLv2

libvma

9.8.1-1

GPLv2 or BSD

libxlio

2.1.4-1

GPLv2 or BSD

mlnx-en

5.9-0.5.5.0.g8e3d458

GPLv2

mlnx-ethtool

6.0-1.59056

GPL

mlnx-iproute2

6.0.0-1.59056

GPL

mlnx-nfsrdma

5.9-OFED.5.9.0.5.4.1

GPLv2

mlnx-nvme

5.9-OFED.5.9.0.5.4.1

GPLv2

mlnx-ofa_kernel

5.9-OFED.5.9.0.5.5.1

GPLv2

mlnx-tools

5.2.0-0.59056

GPLv2

mlx-steering-dump

1.0.0-0.59056

GPLv2

mpi-selector

1.0.3-1.59056

BSD

mpitests

3.2.20-de56b6b.59056

BSD

mstflint

4.16.1-2.59056

GPL/BSD

multiperf

3.0-3.0.59056

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

ofed-docs

5.9-OFED.5.9.0.5.6

GPL/BSD

ofed-scripts

5.9-OFED.5.9.0.5.6

GPL/BSD

openmpi

4.1.5rc2-1.59056

BSD

opensm

5.14.0.MLNX20230123.8bab53ab-0.1.59056

GPLv2 or BSD

openvswitch

2.17.6-1.59056

ASL 2.0 and LGPLv2+ and SISSL

perftest

4.5-0.20.gac7cca5.59056

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

rdma-core

59mlnx44-1.59056

GPLv2 or BSD

rshim

2.0.6-18.g955dbef

GPLv2

sharp

3.2.0.MLNX20230122.a97f1d1c-1.59056

Proprietary

sockperf

3.10-0.git5ebd327da983.59056

BSD

srp

5.9-OFED.5.9.0.5.4.1

GPLv2

ucx

1.15.0-1.59056

BSD

xpmem

2.6.4-1.59056

GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1