Document Revision History

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"

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"

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

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"

Added:

• Section "Another backend already attached"

Updated:

• Section "Ensure RShim Running on Host"