Firmware Compatible Products
These are the release notes for the NVIDIA® BlueField-2 SmartNICs firmware. This firmware supports the following protocols:
InfiniBand - QDR, FDR, EDR, HDR100, HDR
Ethernet - 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE1, 100GbE1, 200GbE2, 400GbE2
PCI Express 4.0, supporting backwards compatibility for v3.0, v2.0 and v1.1
1. Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode.
2. Speed that supports PAM4 mode only.
When connecting an NVIDIA-to-NVIDIA adapter card in ETH PAM4 speeds, Auto-Neg should always be enabled.
For a complete list of supported devices, refer to the hardware user manuals.
Please be aware that not all firmware binaries contain FlexBoot or UEFI, support may vary between cards.
The following are the drivers’ software, tools, switch/HCA firmware versions tested that you can upgrade from or downgrade to when using this firmware version:
Supported Version | |
NVIDIA BlueField-2 Firmware | 24.39.5124 / 24.39.5050 / 24.39.5050 |
BlueField DPU OS Software | 4.5.4 |
MLNX_OFED | 23.10-6.1.6.1 / 23.10-5.1.4.0 / 23.10-4.0.9.1 Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes. |
MLNX_EN (MLNX_OFED based code) | 23.10-6.1.6.1 / 23.10-5.1.4.0 / 23.10-4.0.9.1 Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes. |
WinOF-2 | 23.10.51000 / 23.10.50000 / 23.7.50000 Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes. |
MFT | 4.26.1-35 / 4.26.1-31 / 4.26.1-18 Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes. |
mstflint | 4.26.1-35 / 4.26.1-31 / 4.26.1-18 Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes. |
FlexBoot | 3.7.300 |
UEFI | 14.32.17 |
MLNX-OS | 3.10.5002 onwards |
Cumulus | 5.4 onwards |
NVIDIA Quantum-2 Firmware | 31.2012.1024 onwards |
NVIDIA Quantum Firmware | 27.2012.1010 onwards |