Changes and New Features
Note
Security Hardening Enhancements: This release contains important reliability improvements and security hardening enhancements. NVIDIA recommends upgrading your devices' firmware to this release to improve the devices’ firmware security and reliability.
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To generate PLDM packages for firmware updates, users must install and use the MFT version that corresponds with the respective firmware release.
| Feature/Change | Description |
| 28.44.1036 | |
| Multi-host LAG | When using a multi-host deployment, each host is assigned unique ports and PFs and manages its own LAG. |
| PCIe Switch fwreset | Added support for a new synchronized flow, including a tool and driver, to perform a fwreset on setups with a PCIe switch configuration. |
| PTP | Unified PTP is now supported across different VFs on the same PF. |
| MADs | Added support for new MADs: PortRecoveryPolicyConfig and PortRecoveryPolicyCounters. During the PHY recovery process, the firmware core will indicate the port_logical_state as Active. |
| Block SMP Traffic | Added a new NV config (SM_DISABLE, default 0) which, when enabled, blocks SMP traffic that does not originate from the SM. |
| Dynamic Long Cables | Added the ability to set cable length as a parameter in the PFCC access register. The cable length is used in the calculation of RX lossless buffer parameters, including size, Xoff, and Xon thresholds. |
| Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |