NVIDIA BlueField BSP v4.13.0

Bug Fixes In This Version

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For an archive of bug fixes from previous releases, please see "Bug Fixes History".

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4432078

Description: The PLDM file name uses a different YY/MM tag than the corresponding BFB file name.

Keywords: PLDM; BFB; filename

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4438514

Description: When probing device instance 1, the gpio-mlxbf3 driver may log the following harmless message: mlxbf3_gpio MLNXBF33:01: error -ENXIO: IRQ index 0 not found.

Keywords: Logging

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4546487

Description: In Device Manager, users can still select the “Separated” internal CPU mode even though this mode has been deprecated and is no longer supported.

Keywords: Device Manager; Separated mode; SmartNIC; Embedded mode

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4548563

Description: On BlueField-3 with Ubuntu 24.04, the OP-TEE driver cannot be loaded. Running modprobe optee fails with Operation not supported.

Keywords: OP-TEE; modprobe

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4548705

Description: Oracle Linux 9.4 BFB for BlueField-3 does not include the doca-sosreport package, preventing generation of SOS diagnostic reports.

Keywords: BFB; doca-sosreport; missing package

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4582160

Description: Running dmidecode -t 16 on BlueField-3 may show an incorrect "Number Of Devices" in the physical memory array section. Systems with two memory devices may report only one.

Keywords: SMBIOS; dmidecode; memory devices

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4612418

Description: Configuring hugepages through /etc/default/grub (e.g., default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=6) does not take effect after reboot.

Keywords: Hugepages; GRUB; boot parameters

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4643161

Description: On some operating systems, the partition UUID may change after the first boot following installation.

Keywords: Maintenance mode; boot failure

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4652620

Description: Real-time CPU frequency monitoring may increase CPU usage by 10–30% on older Linux kernels.

Keywords: CPPC utilization

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4519591

Description: In NIC mode, after Arm reboot, the BMC firmware and CEC versions are intermittently missing in the host query output.

Keywords: Host; firmware

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4550064

Description: When running sos report, several plugins such as kernel, process, and processor may time out during report generation. The timeouts are harmless; reports still generate successfully.

Keywords: Kernel boot failure

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4626552

Description: A firmware update failure may be incorrectly logged as an informational [INFO] message rather than an [ERROR].

Keywords: Firmware update; bfb-install; logging

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4643378

Description: In long-duration AC cycling tests, ipmitool commands may fail due to intermittent I²C device access issues on BlueField-3.

Keywords: I2C; IPMI

Detected in version: 3.1.0

4656521

Description: On BlueField-3 running Debian 13, restarting the openibd driver service on the Arm side may fail if user applications (e.g., reactor_0) are still holding InfiniBand device handles. The service reports Cannot unload the InfiniBand driver stack.

Keywords: Debian; driver restart

Detected in version: 3.1.0

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