Changes and New Feature History

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This section includes history of changes and new feature of 3 major releases back. For older releases history, please refer to the relevant firmware versions.

Feature/Change	Description
12.27.4000
Resourcedump	Added the following segments, as appeared in the PRM, to the Resource Dump: PRM_QUERY_QP PRM_QUERY_CQ PRM_QUERY_MKEY QUERY_VNIC_ENV
Bug Fixes	See Bug Fixes.
12.27.2008
Bug Fixes	See Bug Fixes.
12.27.1016
RoCE Selective Repeat	RoCE Selective Repeat introduces a new QP retransmission mode in RoCE: recovery from packet drop by resending the dropped packet and not only all the PSN window (Go-Back-N protocol),This new capability comes with the following limitations: Selective repeat cannot be used with AR Does not work with signature (T10-DIF) Does not work with Tag Matching enabled
RedFish (RDE)	Allows BMC to query and control NIC over RedFish API (https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish). Currently, the NIC supports reading data and setting basic Ethernet and InfiniBand parameters.
ECMP with RoCE Traffic	Enables matching of source_vhca_port in the FDB flow for ECMP hardware offload on a single FDB
Hardware Offloaded Rules (Resource Dump)	Added support for dumping hardware steering entries (raw data) using the resource dump API
Link Down Counter	The `eth_link_down_counter` now counts logical link downs as well.
Bug Fixes	See Bug Fixes
Rev. 12.26.4012
Globally Disable RoCE through MST	Enables the user to globally disable RoCE on init by writing to the access register NCFG_REG.
Zero-Touch RoCE (ZTR) Slow Start	Enabled Zero-Touch RoCE (ZTR) slow start capability for responder flows.
Resource Dump	Extracts and prints data segments generated by the firmware.
Bug Fixes	See Bug Fixes History.
Rev. 12.26.1040
ICMD and Diagnostic Counters	Enabled the firmware by using the ICMD commands to deal with diagnostic counters similar to cmdif. They can be called via the vsec space. The counters’ values are returned only via the tracer. The ICMD Query Caps indicate support and expose the list of the supported counters.
User Context Object (DEVX)	This is a containerized sandbox per user, to access PRM command securely by using General Object commands, UMEM and UCTX contexts. The allowed functionalities of this capability depend on the user permissions. The following functionalities are still managed by the Kernel: Resource cleaning UCTX stamping Blocking the physical address and IRQ from these UCTX
DEVX Support for Asynchronous Events	Added support for reporting the supported affiliated and unaffiliated asynchronous events to DEVX users through the command interface.
Zero-Touch-RoCE Counters	Zero-Touch-RoCE counters are now available to the user for debuggability purposes when using the Zero-Touch-RoCE feature.
Security Hardening Enhancements	This release contains important reliability improvements and security hardening enhancements. Mellanox recommends upgrading your device firmware to this release to improve the device firmware security and reliability.
Bug Fixes	See Bug Fixes History.
Rev. 12.25.1020
VSC Security	VSC security includes the mechanisms which will prevent a reasonable host from affecting other hosts from using VSC.
ODP support for SRQ & XRC	Added support for send opcode operations targeting a SRQ/RMP with the receive WQEs using ODP memory. In case the receive WQE receives an ODP, the device will generate ODP notifications (EQE) and PFAULT will abort CQEs. Note: It is recommended to prefetch the memory used by the receive WQEs to reduce ODP occurrence as these have significant latencies and will cause a performance degradation.
Auto-Sensing when using 25/10GbE Optical Modules	This new capability accelerates the network to auto-sense the port speed and use it when using a 25/10GbE optical module. Meaning, if the used module is 25GbE but the port is a 10GbE port, the speed used for that network will be 10GbE.
Package ID	Enabled Package ID configuration using server strap according OCP 3.0.
DPDK UIO	This capability provides a solution for improving user space drivers development, generic user space IO device services.
mlxconfig	Renamed the BOOT_RETRY_CNT1 parameter to BOOT_RETRY_CNT.
Reduced Firmware Upgrade Time	Reduced firmware upgrade time using mlxfwreset tool to ~3 seconds. Using this capability requires enabling PARTIAL_RESET_EN in mlxconfig and using MFT version 4.12.0 and up. The “PARTIAL” refers to not resetting the port modules (which is not mandatory for firmware upgrades). Note: Currently this capability only supports firmware upgrade and downgrades to firmware versions newer than XX.25.1020.
Bug Fixes	See Bug Fixes History.