NVIDIA Firmware Tools (MFT) Documentation v4.35.0

Changes and New Features

Component/ Tool

Description

Operating System

Rev. 4.35.0-159

General

MFT v4.35.0 introduces support for the NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, making it the first GA MFT release to enable ConnectX-9.

All

Changed payload compression method for DEB and RPM packages to gzip format.

All

fwctl

Added support for fwctl interface.

Note

fwctl interface is only for PRM based tools.

Linux Kernel v6.8 and above that has:

  • fwctl subsystem support

  • mlx5_core driver built/available in Kernel

MST

Added support to display STATE column when running "mst status -v" command.

This column will be used for recovery indication: for devices in recovery mode "recovery" will be printed.

All

DMA

Added support for a new feature which detects when DMA Protection is enabled and avoid using DMA in that case.

Windows

mlxlink

Added a new column to the show_links table to reflect the PCIE link status (UP\DN).

All

Added support for a new field in show_plr flag to reflect the operational PLR state.

All

Added support for test mode on switches where the modules are not in firmware control.

All

Added support for giving dbdf information instead of just bdf when running mlxlink -d <dev> —port_type PCIE —show_links tool.

All

Bug Fixes

See MFT Bug Fixes in this Version.

All

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