General Support

Supported Uplinks to Servers

This version supports 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
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
Innova™ IPsec EN		Ethernet: 10GbE, 40GbE
Connect-IB®		InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR10, FDR
ConnectX-3/ConnectX-3 Pro	mlx4	InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR10, FDR Ethernet: 10GbE, 40GbE and 56GbE¹

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.
Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode.
Speed that supports PAM4 mode only.

BlueField is supported as a standard ConnectX-5 Ethernet NIC only.
BlueField-2 is supported as a standard ConnectX-6 Dx Ethernet NIC. On the DPU, BlueField-2 is only supported as technical preview (i.e., the feature is not fully supported for production). See also: https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15-SP4/index.html section 2.8.1.2.
ConnectX-7 is only supported as technical preview (i.e., the feature is not fully supported for production).

This SLES15 driver supports the following NVIDIA network adapter cards firmware versions.

Adapter Card	Recommended Firmware Version
BlueField-2	24.33.1048
BlueField	18.33.1048
Connect-IB	10.16.1002
ConnectX-7	28.33.2028
ConnectX-6 Lx	26.33.1048
ConnectX-6 Dx	22.33.1048
ConnectX-6	20.33.1048
ConnectX-5	16.33.1048
ConnectX-4 Lx	14.32.1010
ConnectX-4	12.28.2006
ConnectX-3/ConnectX-3 Pro	2.42.5000

Driver	Support
mlx4_core, mlx4_en, mlx4_ib	Ethernet InfiniBand: Technical Preview
mlx5_core (includes Ethernet functionality), mlx5_ib	Ethernet InfiniBand: Technical Preview

RoCE Support

Driver	Support
mlx4—RoCE v1/v2	Yes
mlx5—RoCE v1/v2	Yes

Driver	Support
mlx4—VXLAN offload	Yes
mlx5—VXLAN offload	Yes (without RSS)

Driver	Support
mlx4	No
mlx5	Yes

Driver	Support
mlx4	NVIDIA PMD is enabled by default.
mlx5	NVIDIA PMD is enabled by default.