Changes and New Features
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Customer Affecting Change |
Description |
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Installation Process Firmware Burn Update |
Starting from this release, the OFED installation process does not burn firmware for none Connect-X devices. To burn the firmware manually, use this script: /opt/mellanox/mlnx-fw-updater/mlnx_fw_updater.pl |
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Deprecation of Older Operating Systems |
Starting from this release, MLNX_OFED releases no longer support operating systems with kernels below v4.18. This includes the following systems:
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The following are the new features and changes that were added in this version. The supported adapter cards are specified as follows:
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Supported Cards |
Description |
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All HCAs |
Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise: ConnectX-4/ConnectX-4 Lx/ConnectX-5/ConnectX-6/ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2 |
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ConnectX-6 Dx and above |
Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise: ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2 |
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ConnectX-6 and above |
Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise: ConnectX-6/ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2 |
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ConnectX-5 and above |
Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise: ConnectX-5/ConnectX-6/ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2 |
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ConnectX-4 and above |
Supported in the following adapter cards unless specifically stated otherwise: ConnectX-4/ConnectX-4 Lx/ConnectX-5/ConnectX-6/ConnectX-6 Dx/ConnectX-6 Lx/ConnectX-7/BlueField-2 |
For a list of features from previous versions see Release Notes Change Log History section.
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Feature/Change |
Description |
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24.01-0.3.3.1 |
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Installation |
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Kernel Version Update for Kylin 10 |
Upgraded the kernel version of the Kylin 10 Operating System Service Pack 3 to v4.19.90-52.22.v2207. |
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General |
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General |
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For additional information on the new features, please refer to the MLNX_OFED User Manual.
MLNX_OFED Verbs API Migration
As of MLNX_OFED v5.0 release (Q1 of the year 2020), MLNX_OFED Verbs API have migrated from the legacy version of user space verbs libraries (libibervs, libmlx5, etc.) to the Upstream version rdma-core.
For the list of MLNX_OFED verbs APIs that have been migrated, refer to Migration to RDMA-Core document.