This version supports the following uplinks to servers.
Uplink/Adapter Card | Driver Name | Uplink Speed |
BlueField-2 | mlx5 |
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BlueField |
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ConnectX-7 |
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ConnectX-6 Lx |
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ConnectX-6 Dx |
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ConnectX-6 |
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ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex |
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ConnectX-4 Lx |
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ConnectX-4 |
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Innova™ IPsec EN |
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Connect-IB® |
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ConnectX-3/ConnectX-3 Pro | mlx4 |
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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.
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 |
mlx5_core (includes Ethernet functionality), mlx5_ib | Ethernet |
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. |