NVIDIA ConnectX-6 DE Adapter Cards Firmware Release Notes v22.43.8002 LTS

Firmware Compatible Products

The chapter contains the following sections:

These are the release notes for the NVIDIA® ConnectX®-6 DE adapters firmware. This firmware supports the following protocols:

  • InfiniBand - SDR, QDR, FDR, EDR, HDR100, HDR

  • PCI Express 4.0, supporting backwards compatibility for v3.0, v2.0 and v1.1

1. Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode.

Note

When connecting an NVIDIA-to-NVIDIA adapter card in ETH PAM4 speeds, Auto-Neg should always be enabled.

Note

Please make sure to use a PCIe slot that can supply the required power to the ConnectX-6 DE adapter card as stated in section Specifications in the adapter card’s User Manual.

Refer to the hardware documentation for the list of supported devices.

The following are the drivers’ software, tools, switch/HCA firmware versions tested that you can upgrade from or downgrade to when using this firmware version:

Supported Version

ConnectX-6 DE Firmware

22.43.8002 / 22.43.3608 / 22.43.2566

DOCA-HOST

2.9.3 / 2.9.2

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

MLNX_OFED

24.10-3.2.5.0 / 24.10-1.1.4.0 / 24.10-0.7.0.0

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

MLNX_EN (MLNX_OFED based code)

24.10-3.2.5.0 / 24.10-1.1.4.0 / 24.10-0.7.0.0

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

WinOF-2

24.10.50010 / 24.7.50000 / 24.4.50000

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

MFT

4.30.1-1210 / 4.30.1-113 / 4.30.1-8

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

mstflint

4.30.1-1210 / 4.30.1-113 / 4.30.1-8

Note: For the list of the supported Operating Systems, please refer to the driver's Release Notes.

FlexBoot

3.7.500

UEFI

14.37.13

MLNX-OS

3.12.2002 onwards

Cumulus

5.11.0.0026 onwards

NVIDIA Quantum Firmware

27.2014.2084 onwards

SwitchX-IB 2 Firmware

15.2010.5108 onwards

SwitchX-IB Firmware

11.2008.3328 onwards

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