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5.5-1.0.3.2 

December 2, 2021Initial release of this document version.

As of MLNX_OFED version v5.1-0.6.6.0, 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 NICs Speeds

The Linux Driver operates across all NVIDIA network adapter solutions supporting the following uplinks to servers:

Uplink/NICsDriver NameUplink 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-6 Dx
  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE2
ConnectX-6 Lx
  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2

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. Supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes.


Package Contents 

Package

Revision

Licenses

ar_mgr

1.0-5.10.0.MLNX20211020.gceea2f0.55103

Mellanox Confidential and Proprietary

clusterkit

1.5.407-1.55103

BSD

dapl

2.1.10.1.mlnx-OFED.4.9.0.1.4.55103

Dual GPL/BSD/CPL

dpcp

1.1.17-1.55103

Proprietary

dump_pr

1.0-5.10.0.MLNX20211107.g9b21597.55103

GPLv2 or BSD

fabric-collector

1.1.0.MLNX20170103.89bb2aa-0.1.55103

GPLv2 or BSD

hcoll

4.7.3202-1.55103

Proprietary

ibdump

6.0.0-1.55103

BSD2+GPL2

ibsim

0.10-1.55103

GPLv2 or BSD

ibutils2

2.1.1-0.143.MLNX20211118.gdf38b79d.55103

Mellanox Confidential and Proprietary

iser

5.5-OFED.5.5.1.0.3.1

GPLv2

isert

5.5-OFED.5.5.1.0.3.1

GPLv2

kernel-mft

4.18.0-106

Dual BSD/GPL

knem

1.1.4.90mlnx1-OFED.5.5.0.5.2.1

BSD and GPLv2

libvma

9.4.0-1

GPLv2 or BSD

libxlio

1.1.8-1

GPLv2 or BSD

mlnx-en

5.5-1.0.3.0.gf3bf963

GPLv2

mlnx-ethtool

5.13-1.55103

GPL

mlnx-iproute2

5.14.0-1.55103

GPL

mlnx-nfsrdma

5.5-OFED.5.5.1.0.3.1

GPLv2

mlnx-nvme

5.5-OFED.5.5.1.0.3.1

GPLv2

mlnx-ofa_kernel

5.5-OFED.5.5.1.0.3.1

GPLv2

mlnx-tools

5.2.0-0.55103

GPLv2

mlx-steering-dump

1.0.0-0.55103

GPLv2

mpi-selector

1.0.3-1.55103

BSD

mpitests

3.2.20-5d20b49.55103

BSD

mstflint

4.16.0-1.55103

GPL/BSD

multiperf

3.0-0.14.g5f0fd0e.55103

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

ofed-docs

5.5-OFED.5.5.1.0.3

GPL/BSD

ofed-scripts

5.5-OFED.5.5.1.0.3

GPL/BSD

openmpi

4.1.2rc2-1.55103

BSD

opensm

5.10.0.MLNX20211115.e645cc83-0.1.55103

GPLv2 or BSD

openvswitch

2.15.1-1.55103

ASL 2.0 and LGPLv2+ and SISSL

perftest

4.5-0.12.ge93c538.55103

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

rdma-core

55mlnx37-1.55103

GPLv2 or BSD

rshim

2.0.6-3.ge329c69

GPLv2

sharp

2.6.1.MLNX20211124.aac4a56-1.55103

Proprietary

sockperf

3.7-0.gita1e8e835a689.55103

BSD

srp

5.5-OFED.5.5.1.0.3.1

GPLv2

ucx

1.12.0-1.55103

BSD

xpmem

2.6.3-1.55103

GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1