Document Revision History
Added:
- Section "VF Msix_num/Queue Requirement" 
Updated:
- Section "bf.cfg Parameters" 
- Section "NIC Mode for BlueField-2" 
- Section "Default Ports and OVS Configuration" 
- Section "SystemD Service" 
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 "Running strongSwan Example" 
- Section "Building strongSwan" 
- Section "IPsec Packet Offload and OVS Offload" 
Updated:
- Section "NIC Mode" 
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" 
Added:
- Page "SoC Management Interface" 
- 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 "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" 
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 
- 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" 
- 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" 
- 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"