Changes and New Feature History
Category | Changes |
Rev. 14.27.15 | |
NVIDIA BlueField-2 | Added support for boot over Virtio Net/Blk emulation hotplug/static device on Arm servers. For further information, refer to the NVIDIA BlueField User Manual. |
Hii Menu/General | Changed the device name exposed by the UEFI driver from “Nidia Network Adapter” to “Mellanox Network Adapter” on all the device except for ConnectX-7. |
Hii Menu | Added a new setting to enable/disable RT_PPS_ENABLED_ONPOWERUP. For further information, refer to the PreBoot Drivers User Manual. |
Rev. 14.26.17 | |
General | Added support for NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 adapter cards. ConnectX-7 has the same feature set as ConnectX-6 adapter card.For the list of the ConnectX-6 firmware features, please see ConnectX-6 Firmware Release Notes. |
Hii Menu/General | Changed the device name that is exposed by UEFI driver from “Mellanox Network Adapter” to “Nvidia Network Adapter”. |
Hii Menu /FMP | UEFI driver on ConnectX-7 will expose the firmware version with format xx.yy.zzzz through HII and FMP UEFI protocols. |
Rev. 14.25.17 | |
Hii Menu | Added new Hii setting "Network Link Type" in the main configuration menu used for changing the link type (Ethernet/InfiniBand). For Further information please refer to the PreBoot User Manual |
NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 | Enabled the option management and boot over DBU management PF (IDRAC/BMC) on SmartNic |
Rev. 14.24.13 | |
Hii Menu | Removed NIC Configuration section from the Hii menu when the device is operating in ETH mode and on an Arm arch server. |
Hii Menu | Changed the Default value of advertised mode setting and SR-IOV setting in the Hii menu to be aligned with firmware's default value. |
UNDI | Added support for reporting the link status to the BIOS in real time through UNDI Get Status protocol function. |
Rev. 14.23.17 | |
Hii Menu | Changed the Hii Configuration ( UEFI HII protocol) to be Enabled by default. |
Rev. 14.22.16 | |
General | This version of UEFI does not have any changes. The version number was increased due to the release of a new firmware version. |
Rev. 14.22.14 | |
Adapter Cards | Added support for BlueField 2 adapters cards at GA level. |
BlueField 2 | Added support for boot over Virtio Net/Blk emulation hotplug/static device. |
Hii Menu | Added a new setting for IPv6 in the iSCSI Initiator/General Section for adding iSCSI boot over IPV6 support on legacy mode. |
Hii menu | Now the value of BlinkLeds can be applied by the EFI_BROWSER_ACTION_CHANGED (change and press enter operation) callback operation instead of the save operation. |
General | Added the option to expose the expansion ROM only on the first PF on Multi PF devices. |
Bug Fixes | |
Rev. 14.21.17 | |
General | This version of UEFI does not have any changes. The version number was increased due to the release of a new firmware version. |
Rev. 14.21.16 | |
Adapter Cards | Added support for ConnectX-6 Lx adapter cards. |
Adapter Cards | [Beta] Added support for BlueField 2 adapters cards. |
Hii Menu | Changed the default value of "Blink Leds" setting to "0" |
General [BlueField/SmartNic] | Added support for loading the UEFI driver so the UEFI NIC will be visible as boot option in Mellanox Bluefield 1/Mellanox Bluefield 2 when operating on Embedded CPU mode and the Arm side is down. |
Rev. 14.20.22 | |
General | Updated the UEFI version to support new ConnectX-5 / ConnectX-6 / ConnectX-6 Dx firmware versions. |
Rev. 14.20.19 | |
Adapter Cards | Added support for ConnectX-6 Dx adapter cards. |
UEFI Driver in EXPROM | Enabled the UEFI driver in ConnectX-6 and ConnectX-6 DX for both x86 and Arm architectures. |
General | Added support to expose the maximum link speed via CLP/AIM on devices that support HDR100 and EDR50 speeds. |
Rev. 14.19.14 | |
HII Menu | Added "Socket Direct Operation" new setting in Hii main menu. For further information refer to the PreBoot Drivers User Manual |
Firmware Management Protocol | Optimized the performance (run time) of both the SetImage and the GetImage FMP functions. |
Rev. 14.18.19 | |
General | Update the supported EFI specification version to 2.7 |
Firmware Management Protocol | Added the option to return unsupported status on secure adapter cards when using the "GetImage" operation. |
Rev. 14.17.11 | |
Secure Boot | Added support for secure boot on Arm servers for Mellanox adapter cards. |
Rev. 14.16.17 | |
HII Menu | Added “PXE boot without fail-over to iSCSI” and “iSCSI boot without fail-over to PXE boot” options for legacy_boot_prtocol configuration. For further information, refer to Mellanox PreBoot Drivers User Manual. |
Enabled UEFI to expose the current link speed of the system in the HII menu. | |
Bug Fixes | |
Rev. 14.15.19 | |
Enable/Disable UEFI in EXPROM via mlxconfig | Added UEFI support to additional ConnectX-4/ConnectX-4 Lx/ConnectX- 5 adapter cards. Note: Not all cards are compiled with UEFI. For the full list of the OPNs compiled with the new UEFI capability, please refer to the firmware Release Notes
Enabling/Disabling UEFI in ConnectX-4/ConnectX-4 Lx/ConnectX-5 in EXPROM is done via mlxconfig. The default values are:
Note: The values above can be set only in adapter cards that support this capability. For further information on how to enable/disable UEFI, refer to section Enabling/Disabling FlexBoot/UEFI in EXPROM via mlxconfig in the Mellanox PreBoot Drivers (FlexBoot & UEFI) User Manual. |
Rev. 14.14.22 | |
Client Identifier | Added support for client_identifier option (option 61) in InfiniBand mode. |
HII menu | Added the option to Enable/Disable HII Configuration via mlxconfig. |
Rev. 14.13.24 | |
Secure Firmware Update | Integrated the MFT package to support Secure Firmware Update image. |
HII menu | Added HII Power Configuration menu. |
Rev. 14.12.24 | |
Networking | Ethernet only: The MTU value is set to 1500 upon driver bring up. |
General | Updated the supported EFI version to 2.6. |
Rev. 14.12.20 | |
Adapter Cards | [Beta] Added support for ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex adapter cards. |
Boot performance | Boot performance improvements. Enabled post Tx doorbell using UAR. |
Rev. 14.11.28 | |
Boot | Enabled booting with non default pkey in InfiniBand mode |
Added boot to target configuration | |
Platform to driver protocol | Added the option to return EfiPlatformConfigurationActionUnsupportedGuid in case the GUID is not supported |
Driver Health | Updated the DriverHealth behavior to comply with the UEFI spec |
Diagnostics protocol | Deprecated Extented Diagnostics (return unsupported) |
Rev. 14.10.16 | |
Boot over IPv4 and IPv6 | Enabled network boot via PXE over IPv4 and IPv6 |
Device Diagnosis | Enables the driver to run self diagnostics tests via Diagnostics protocol |
Firmware Management | Enables the driver to manage firmware using Firmware Management Protocol (FMP) |
Secure Boot | The UEFI driver is signed and complied with SecureBoot standard |