Changes and New Features

For a list of old Changes and Features, please see Changes and New Features History.

Category	Changes
Rev.
Hii Menu	Added an option to enable/disable NIC mode on BlueField-2 and BlueFIeld-3, as well as additional internal/external BlueField HCA settings. For Further information, please refer to the latest NVIDIA PreBoot Drivers User Manual and the latest NVIDIA BlueField User Manual.
Hii Menu	Added an option to enable/disable macOS Monterey on BlueField-3 from the host side. For Further information, please refer to the latest PreBoot Drivers User Manual and the latest NVIDIA BlueField User Manual.
NVIDIA BlueField-2	Added support for boot over BlueField-2 when the device is operating in NIC mode and InfiniBand link type.
NVIDIA BlueField-2 and BlueField-3	Added the ability to expose AIP UEFI protocol on BlueFIeld DPU when the device is operating on NIC mode.

Installed UEFI APIs (Protocols)

The following are the lists of UEFI APIs (protocols) installed over UEFI:

Driver handle	EFI Component name Protocol EFI Component name 2 Protocol EFI Diagnostics Protocol EFI Diagnostics 2 Protocol EFI Driver Health Protocol
PCI controller handle	EFI Driver binding protocol (driver start, stop, supported) installed by system UEFI on handle
Port handle (child handle to PCI controller handle, one handle per port)	EFI Device Path Protocol EFI Network Interface Identifier Protocol (UNDI)

Driver handle

PCI controller handle

EFI Driver binding protocol (driver start, stop, supported) installed by system UEFI on handle

Port handle

(child handle to PCI controller handle, one handle per port)