Known Issues

Workaround: The following are possible options –

• Boot the BFB file doca_2.5.0_bsp_4.5.0_ubuntu_22.04-1.23-10.prod.bfb to update the platform software
• Download, compile, and install latest mlxbf-bootctl command from GitHub

• Edit default.bfb by using the mlx-mkbfb command to incorporate the platform-specific images and filtering out unused images. Example for a BlueField-2 device:

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  $ mlx-mkbfb -x default.bfb
  $ mlx-mkbfb \
  --bl2r-v1=dump-bl2r-v1 \
  --bl2r-cert-v1=dump-bl2r-cert-v1 \
  --bl2-v1=dump-bl2-v1 \
  --bl2-cert-v1=dump-bl2-cert-v1 \
  --bl31-v1=dump-bl31-v1 \
  --bl31-cert-v1=dump-bl31-cert-v1 \
  --bl31-key-cert-v1=dump-bl31-key-cert-v1 \
  --bl33-v0=dump-bl33-v0 \
  --bl33-cert-v1=dump-bl33-cert-v1 \
  --bl33-key-cert-v1=dump-bl33-key-cert-v1 \
  --boot-acpi-v0=dump-boot-acpi-v0 \
  --boot-args-v0=dump-boot-args-v0 \
  --boot-desc-v0=dump-boot-desc-v0 \
  --boot-path-v0=dump-boot-path-v0 \
  --ddr_ini-v1=dump-ddr_ini-v1 \
  --ddr-cert-v1=dump-ddr-cert-v1 \
  --ddr_ate_imem-v1=dump-ddr_ate_imem-v1 \
  --ddr_ate_dmem-v1=dump-ddr_ate_dmem-v1 \
  --snps_images-v1=dump-snps_images-v1 \
  --trusted-key-cert-v1=dump-trusted-key-cert-v1 \
  default_min.bfb
          

Description: On Debian 12, Arm ports remain in Legacy mode after multiple Arm reboot iterations. The following error message appears in /var/log/syslog:

            

            
mlnx_bf_configure[2601]: ERR: Failed to configure switchdev mode for 0000:03:00.0 after 61 retries
        

Workaround: Run:

            

            
$ echo SET_MODE_RETRY_NUM=300 >> /etc/mellanox/mlnx-bf.conf
$ reboot
        

Workaround: Create /etc/bf.cfg with the following lines, then run bfcfg to recreate the PXE boot entries:

            

            
BOOT0=DISK
BOOT1=NET-NIC_P0-IPV4
BOOT2=NET-NIC_P0-IPV6
BOOT3=NET-NIC_P1-IPV4
BOOT4=NET-NIC_P1-IPV6
BOOT5=NET-OOB-IPV4
BOOT6=NET-OOB-IPV6
        

Workaround: Use netplan configuration. For example

            

            
# cat /etc/netplan/tmfifo_net0.yaml
network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    tmfifo_net0:
      addresses:
      - 192.168.100.1/30
      dhcp4: false
        

Then run "netplan apply".

Description: After rebooting a BlueField-3 DPU running Rocky Linux 8.6 BFB, the kernel log shows the following error:

            

            
[    3.787135] mlxbf_gige MLNXBF17:00: Error getting PHY irq. Use polling instead
        

This message indicates that the Ethernet driver will function normally in all aspects, except that PHY polling is enabled.

Description: When trying to perform a PXE installation when UEFI Secure Boot is enabled, the following error messages may be observed:

            

            
error: shim_lock protocol not found.
error: you need to load the kernel first.
        

Workaround: Use ib_core module parameter netns_mode=0. For example:

            

            
echo "options ib_core netns_mode=0" >> /etc/modprobe.d/mlnx-bf.conf
        

Workaround: Set OPENSSL_CONF=/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.orig before using the curl utility.

For example:

            

            
# OPENSSL_CONF=/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf.orig curl -O https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim
        

Description: The host may crash when the number of PCIe devices overflows the PCIe device address. According to the PCIe spec, the device address space is 8 bits in total—device (5 bits) and function (3 bits)—which means that the total number of devices cannot be more than 256.

The second PF maximum number of VFs is limited by the total number of additional PCIe devices that precedes it. By default, the preceding PCIe devices are 2 PFs + RShim DMA + 127 VFs of the first PF. This means that the maximum valid number of VFs for the second port will be 126.