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NVIDIA BlueField BSP v4.9.1

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  • Rev 4.8.0 – August 14, 2024

    Added:

    • Section "Ubuntu Password Policy"

    • Section "RShim Ownership"

    • Page "Deploying DPU OS Using BFB with PXE"

    • Page "Deploying BlueField Software Using ISO with PXE"

    • Page "Customizing BlueField Software deployment using bf.cfg"

    • Note on host type interoperability limitation to "Multi-Host"

    • Troubleshooting page "Ubuntu Kernel Debug"

    Updated:

    • Page "Deploying BlueField Software Using PXE"

    • Step 2 under section "Installing Local Repo Package for Host Dependencies"

    • The note at the top of the "fTPM over OP-TEE" page

    • Section "Zero-trust Mode"

    Rev 4.7.0 – May 06, 2024

    Added:

    • Section "UEFI Menu"

    • Section "Redfish"

    • Section "BlueField SR-IOV"

    • Section "NVIDIA BlueField Reset and Reboot Procedures" and updated graceful shutdown guidance with pointers to this section

    Updated:

    • Section "Software Installation and Upgrade" with bf-fwbundle-<version>.prod.bfb information

    • Section "BFB Installation"

    • Section "Changing Default Credentials for 'ubuntu' User via bf.cfg"

    • Section "Configuring NIC Mode on BlueField-3 Using Redfish"

    Rev 4.6.0 – February 08, 2024

    Added:

    • Page "Default Passwords and Policies"

    • Section "VF Msix_num/Queue Requirement"

    Updated:

    • Section "Customization of BFB Installation Using bf.cfg"

    • Section "bf.cfg Parameters"

    • Section "Configuring NIC Mode on BlueField-3 Using Redfish"

    • Section "Configuring NIC Mode on BlueField-3 from UEFI"

    • Section "NIC Mode for BlueField-2"

    • Section "Default Ports and OVS Configuration"

    • Section "SystemD Service"

    Rev 4.5.0 – December 12, 2023

    Added:

    • Section "Updating Software Using Redfish"

    • Section "Sanitizing DPU eMMC and SSD Storage"

    • Section "How to perform graceful shutdown"

    • Section "BFB installation monitoring"

    Updated:

    • Page "Updating DPU Software Packages Using Standard Linux Tools"

    • Section "RShim Logging"

    • Section "NIC Mode"

    • Section "Enabling OVS-DPDK Hardware Offload"

    • Section "Enabling IPsec Packet Offload"

    • Section "Setting IPSec Packet Offload Using strongSwan"

    • Section "Running strongSwan Example"

    • Section "Building strongSwan"

    • Section "IPsec Packet Offload and OVS Offload"

    Rev 4.2.2 – October 24, 2023

    Updated:

    • Section "NIC Mode"

    Rev 4.2.0 – August 10, 2023

    Updated:

    • Step 3 under section "PXE Server Preparations"

    • Section "Removing Previously Installed DOCA Runtime Packages"

    • Section "NIC Mode"

    • Sections "Connection Tracking With NAT" and "Querying Connection Tracking Offload Status" with conntack command for Ubuntu 22.04 kernels

    • Section "LAG Configuration"

    • Section "SystemD Service"

    • Page "QoS Configuration"

    • Section "bf.cfg Parameters"

    Rev 4.0.2 – May 08, 2023

    Added:

    • Page "SoC Management Interface"

    • Page "Legal Notices and 3rd Party Licenses"

    • Section "Unable to load BL2, BL2R, or PSC image"

    Updated:

    • Section "Default Ports and OVS Configuration" with new step 2

    • Section "BlueField Linux Drivers" with gpio-mlxbf3, mlxbf-ptm, pwr-mlxbf, and pinctrl-mlxbf

    • Page "Updating DPU Software Packages Using Standard Linux Tools"

    • Page "UEFI Secure Boot"

    • Section "IPsec Hardware Offload: Full Offload" with Canonical note

    • Section "How to upgrade ConnectX firmware from Arm side"

    • Section "VirtIO-net PF Device Configuration" by removing ECPF_ESWITCH_MANAGER and ECPF_PAGE_SUPPLIER from step 4

    • Section "Virtio-net SR-IOV VF Device Configuration" by removing ECPF_ESWITCH_MANAGER and ECPF_PAGE_SUPPLIER from step 7.b

    • Section "vDPA over VirtIO Full Emulation"

    Rev 3.9.3 – November 02, 2022

    Added:

    • Section "DHCP Client Configuration"

    • Section "Updating DPU Software Packages Using Standard Linux Tools"

    • Section "Creating Transitional Hotplug VirtIO-net PF Device"

    • Section "Transitional VirtIO-net VF Device Support"

    Updated:

    • Section "Upgrading Boot Software" by specifying that the "Reset EFI Variables" action also wipes the BOOT option variables and secure boot keys

    • Section "BlueField Linux Drivers"

    • Section "Configuring Uplink MTU"

    • Section "Disabling Host Networking PFs" by adding instructions for reactivating host networking for single-port DPUs

    • Section "Configuring RegEx Acceleration on BlueField-2"

    • Section "Virtio-net SR-IOV VF Device Configuration"

    • PXE_DHCP_CLASS_ID in section "bf.cfg Parameters"

    Removed:

    • Step 7 in section "Configuring Host Server Side"

    • Separated Mode from "Modes of Operation"

    Rev 3.9.2 – August 02, 2022

    Added:

    • Section "Updating NVConfig Params"

    • Page "System Configuration and Services"

    • Section "Enrolling New NVIDIA Certificates"

    • Section "bf.cfg Parameters"

    • Support for OpenSSL version 3.0.2 in section "PKA Use Cases"

    • Section "How to change the default network configuration during BFB installation"

    Updated:

    • Section "Firmware Upgrade"

    • Section "Customizations During BFB Installation"

    • Section "UEFI System Configuration"

    • Page "Host-side Interface Configuration"

    • Section "Enrolling Certificates Using Capsule"

    • Section "NIC Mode" with supported MLNX_OFED versions

    • Section "PKA Use Cases" with support for OpenSSL version 3.0.2

    Rev 3.9.0 – May 03, 2022

    Added:

    • Section "GRUB Password Protection"

    • New note under step 2 in section "Default Ports and OVS Configuration"

    • Section "BlueField Linux Drivers"

    • Canonical db certificate to section "Existing DPU Certificates"

    • New note under section "Enrolling Certificates Using Capsule"

    • New power cycle note under section "Enabling Host Restriction"

    • New power cycle note under section "Disabling Host Restriction"

    • Section "NIC Mode"

    • Section "LAG on Multi-host"

    • New power cycle note under section "Disabling Host Networking PFs"

    • Section "PKA Prerequisites"

    • Section "OVS IPsec"

    • Section "Rate Limiting VF Group"

    • Note to section "User Frontend"

    • Section "Controller Live Update"

    Updated:

    • Code block in section "Customizations During BFB Installation"

    • Section "Building Your Own BFB Installation Image"

    • Section "Configuring VXLAN Tunnel"

    • Step 2 in section "Prerequisites"

    • Section "Enabling IPsec Full Offload"

    • Code block under step 1 in section "LAG Configuration"

    Rev 3.8.5 – January 19, 2022

    Added:

    • Section "Another backend already attached"

    Updated:

    • Section "Ensure RShim Running on Host"

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