Changes and New Feature History
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 |
20.40.1000 |
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Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |
Feature/Change |
Description |
20.39.2048 |
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Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |
Feature/Change |
Description |
20.39.1002 |
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MCTP over PCIe |
Enabled Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) over PCIe. |
Expansion ROM |
Added a caching mechanism to improved expansion ROM performance and to avoid any slow boot occurrences when loading the expansion ROM driver. |
Reserved mkey |
Added new support for reserved mkey index range. When enabled, a range of mkey indexes is reserved for mkey by name use. |
Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |
Feature/Change |
Description |
20.38.1900 |
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QKEY Mitigation in the Kernel |
QKEY creation with the MSB set is available now for non-privileged users as well. To allow non-privileged users to create QKEY with MSB set, the below new module parameter was added to ib_uverbs module:
Note: In this release, this module parameter is disabled by default to ensure backward compatibility and give customers the opportunity to update their applications accordingly. In the upcoming release, it will be enabled by default, and later on deprecated. |
Feature/Change |
Description |
20.38.1002 |
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INT Packets |
Added support for forwarding INT packets to the user application for monitoring purposes by matching the BTH acknowledge request bit (bth_a). |
QKEY Mitigation in the Kernel |
Non-privileged users are now blocked by default from setting controlled/privileged QKEYs (QKEY with MSB set). |
Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |