Changes and New Features

FEC Configuration

Changed the default FEC configuration for the "Protocol Aware" and "Active DME Modules" (ETH cables).

For the list of cable identifiers, see tables below.

NC-SI Channels

Added support for two passthrough channels on dual-port adapter cards.

Expansion ROM

Added a caching mechanism to improved expansion ROM performance and to avoid any slow boot occurrences when loading the expansion ROM driver.

Live Migration Support for Image Size above 4GB

Added support for image size above 4GB when performing a live migration by splitting the image to chunks.

Crypto Algorithms

Extended the role-based authentication to cover all crypto algorithms. Now the TLS. IPsec. MACsec. GCM, mem2mem, and NISP work when nv_crypto_conf.crypto_policy = CRYPTO_POLICY_FIPS_LEVEL_2, meaning all cryptographic engines can also work in wrapped mode and not only in plaintext mode.

DSCP (priority) of ACK Packets

Added the ability to configure the DSCP (priority) of ACK packets using the ROCE_ACCL access register.

Performance Improvements

Added support for large MTU for force loopback QPs to improve performance (using the aes_xts_tweak_inc_64 parameter). This capability is enabled by mlxconfig LARGE_MTU_TWEAK_64 parameter.

DDR Poison: DDR Uncorrectable Error

When there is DDR poison (uncorrectable ECC error), firmware reports the health syndrome ICM_FETCH_PCI_DATA_POISONED_ERR (0x14), and triggers the FLR on the the function causing this error.

Due to this error, the DDR data is mostly corrupted therefore, the firmware blocks other operations on this function.

Live Firmware Patch

Added support for Live Firmware Patch.

Reserved mkey

Added new support for reserved mkey index range. When enabled, a range of mkey indexes is reserved for mkey by name use.

Admin Queue

Added support for admin queue in virtio device object.

Enhanced NIC Mode: GGA Modules

Enabled GGA modules for all working modes (except for RXP) when using Enhanced NIC Mode.

Bug Fixes

See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section.

0x1

100G AOC / 25GAUI C2M AOC

Yes

RS FEC

RS FEC

0x2

100GBASE-SR4 / 25GBASE-SR

Yes

RS FEC

RS FEC

MMA2P00-AS

0x3

100GBASE-LR4

Yes

NO FEC

RS FEC

MMA1L10-CR

0x3

25GBASE-LR

Yes

RS FEC

FC FEC

MMA2L20-AR

0x4

100GBASE-ER4

Yes

NO FEC

RS FEC

SPQCEERCDFLM Source Photonics

0x5

100GBASE-SR10

Yes

NO FEC

RS FEC

0x6

100G CWDM4 MSA with FEC

Yes

RS FEC

RS FEC

MMA1L30-CM

0x7

100G PSM4 Parallel SMF

Yes

RS FEC

RS FEC

MMS1C10-CM

0x8

100G ACC / 25GAUI C2M ACC

Yes

RS FEC

RS FEC

0x9

100G CWDM4 MSA without FEC

Yes

NO FEC

RS FEC

LQ210CR-CPA2

0x17

100G CLR4

Yes

RS FEC

RS FEC

0x18

100G AOC

Yes

NO FEC

RS FEC

MFA1A00-C010

0x19

100G ACC

Yes

NO FEC

RS FEC

0x20

100G SWDM4

Yes

RS FEC

RS FEC

FTLC9152RGPL

0x22 / 0x23 / 0x24

4WDM-10 MSA / 4WDM-20 MSA / 4WDM-40 MSA

Yes

RS FEC

RS FEC