NVIDIA ConnectX-7 Adapter Cards Firmware Release Notes v28.43.8002 LTS

Firmware Compatible Products

These are the release notes for the NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 adapters firmware. This firmware supports the following protocols:

  • InfiniBand - EDR, HDR1002, HDR2, NDR2002, NDR2

  • Ethernet - 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE1, 100GbE1, 200GbE 2, 400GbE2

  • PCI Express 5.0, supporting backwards compatibility for v4.0, v3.0, v2.0 and v1.1

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

2. Speed that supports PAM4 mode only.

Note

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

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-7 Firmware

28.43.8002 / 28.43.3608 / 28.43.2566

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 / 24.10-2.1.8.0 / 24.10-1.1.4.0

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 / 24.10-2.1.8.0 / 24.10-1.1.4.0

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-2 Firmware

31.2014.2084 onwards

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