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Rev 14.14.2036
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  • Page 1: Release Notes

    Mellanox ConnectX®-4 Lx Firmware Release Notes Rev 14.14.2036 www.mellanox.com...
  • Page 2 KIND AND SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF AIDING THE CUSTOMER IN TESTING APPLICATIONS THAT USE THE PRODUCTS IN DESIGNATED SOLUTIONS. THE CUSTOMER'S MANUFACTURING TEST ENVIRONMENT HAS NOT MET THE STANDARDS SET BY MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES TO FULLY QUALIFY THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE SYSTEM USING IT. THEREFORE, MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES CANNOT AND DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT THE PRODUCTS WILL OPERATE WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    7.2 Unsupported Commands ......... . . 31 Chapter 8 Supported Non-Volatile Configurations ......32 Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 4 Table 19: Per host/function Settings ..........32 Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 5: Table 1: Release Update History

    Rev 14.14.2036 Release Update History Table 1 - Release Update History Release Date Description Rev 14.14.2036 February, 2016 Initial version of this firmware release. Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Overview

    OCP, 25GbE dual-port SFP28, PCIe3.0 x8, no bracket, ROHS R6 Supported Cables and Modules Please refer to the LinkX™ Cables and Transceivers web page (www.mellanox.com -> Products -> Cables and Transceivers) for the list of supported cables. Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 7: Validated And Supported 1Gbe Cables

    MELLANOX PASSIVE COPPER HYBRID CABLE ETH 40GBE TO 4X10GBE QSFP TO 4X SFP+ 3M 10GB/S MC2609130-0A1 MELLANOX PASSIVE COPPER HYBRID CABLE ETH 40GBE TO 4X10GBE QSFP TO 4X SFP+ 1.5M 10GB/S MC3309124-004 MELLANOX PASSIVE COPPER CABLE ETH 10GBE 10GB/S SFP+ 4M Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 8 QSFP from 3M up to 100M 40GB/S MC2210411-SR4L MELLANOX OPTICAL MODULE 40GB/S QSFP MPO 850NM UP TO 30M 40GB/S MC2210511-LR4 Mellanox® optical module, IB FDR10, 40Gb/s, QSFP, LC-LC, 1310nm, LR4 up to 10km 40GB/S QSFP-H40G-CU1M Cisco QSFP 40GbE cable Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 9: Validated And Supported 25Gbe Cables

    QSFP LSZH 3M 100GB/S MFA1A00-CXXX-M Mellanox® active fiber cable, ETH 100GbE, 100Gb/s, QSFP, LSZH, up to 100m MMA1B00-E100 Mellanox® transceiver, IB EDR, up to 100Gb/s, QSFP28, MPO, 850nm, up to 100m MCP1600-E001 MELLANOX PASSIVE COPPER CABLE VPI 100GB/S QSFP LSZH Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 10 MELLANOX PASSIVE COPPER CABLE VPI 100GB/S QSFP LSZH MCP1600-E003 MELLANOX PASSIVE COPPER CABLE VPI 100GB/S QSFP LSZH MCP1600-E00A MELLANOX PASSIVE COPPER CABLE VPI 100GB/S QSFP LSZH 0.5M MFA1A00-EXXX MELLANOX active fiber cable, VPI, up to 100Gb/s, QSFP, up to 100m Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 11: Tested Switches

    Table 8 - Tested 10Gb/s/EDR Switches Speed Switch Family OPN # / Name Description Switch-IB SB7790-EB2F 36-port EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Switch Systems 100Gb/s Spectrum SN2700-CS2R 32-port Non-blocking 100GbE Open Ethernet Spine Switch Sys- 100Gb/s N/A C3232C High-Density, 100 Gigabit Ethernet Switch Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 12: Tools, Switch Firmware And Driver Software

    • Mellanox Adapters Programmer’s Reference Manual (PRM), Rev 0.31 or later, which has Command Interface Revision 0x5. The command interface revision can be retrieved by means of the QUERY_FW command and is indicated by the field cmd_inter- face_rev. Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 13: Chapter 2 Changes And New Features In Rev 14.14.2036

    Changes and New Features in Rev 14.14.2036 Table 11 - Firmware Rev 14.14.2036 Changes and New Feature Feature/Change Description Scatter FCS in RQ Enables software to scatter or strip FCS in RQ. Bug Fixes Section 4, “Bug Fixes History”, on page 19 Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 14: Chapter 3 Known Issues

    SwitchX® - 9.2.7300 (or MLNX-OS 3.3.5006) WA: N/A Keywords: Interoperability 682518 Description: Interoperability issue between ConnectX-4 or ConnectX-4 Lx adapter cards and ConnectX-2 adapter card when trying to raise a 10GbE link. WA: N/A Keywords: Interoperability Description: PCIe capability “Device S/N” returns false value.
  • Page 15 Description: Windows Server 2016 Inbox driver cannot work with firmware v14.12.0780 WA: Use WinOF-2 v1.20 out-of-box driver Keywords: Windows Inbox Drivers Description: Flashing the firmware requires server reboot. Firmware cannot be flashed twice without server reboot after first flashing WA: Reboot the server after firmware flashing Keywords: Upgrading/Downgrading Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 16 WA: N/A Keywords: Virtualization 596637 Description: SR-IOV Ethernet supports up to 18 VFs per port only. WA: N/A Keywords: Virtualization 597718 Description: Privileged Vport egress traffic is not blocked when Vport is not active WA: N/A Keywords: Virtualization Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 17 Description: In a Multihost InfiniBand setup, Host#0 should be loaded first and unloaded last. Currently the device does not support on Host#0 while other reboot/stop_driver/flr hosts are active. Note: Host0 can be selected by changing the INI WA: N/A Keywords: Multihost InfiniBand Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 18 691754 Description: is required in and not in com- end_padding_mode CREATE_QP INIT_2_RTR mand as defined in the PRM WA: N/A Keywords: end_padding_mode, 691490 Description: LR4 cable events are sent although the port is up WA: N/A Keywords: Management Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 19: Chapter 4 Bug Fixes History

    Discovered in Release: 14.14.1100 Fixed in Release: 14.14.2036 696486 Description: Increased the steering hash tables static size from 128 to a maximum of 32K entries. Keywords: Steering hash tables static size Discovered in Release: 14.14.1100 Fixed in Release: 14.14.2036 Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 20 Discovered in Release: 14.14.1100 Fixed in Release: 14.14.2036 659307 Description: Fixed a 25G and 50G link issue when Clause 91 RS FEC was active. Keywords: 25G and 50G link, Clause 91 RS FEC Discovered in Release: 14.12.1100 Fixed in Release: 14.14.1100 Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 21 Keywords: Packet Transmit, FLR Discovered in Release: 14.12.1240 Fixed in Release: 14.14.1100 670185 Description: Fixed a UEFI IPv6 PXE boot failure on ConnectX-4 Lx 25GE OCP card. Keywords: UEFI, OCP card Discovered in Release: 14.12.1240 Fixed in Release: 14.14.1100 668221 Description: Fixed an issue which prevented Vport counters from counting local loopback packets.
  • Page 22 Discovered in Release: 14.12.1100 Fixed in Release: 14.14.1100 629563 Description: Fixed an over-subscription on the RX buffer when Flow Control was not enabled which caused the RX pipe to hang. Keywords: Flow Control Discovered in Release: 14.12.0780 Fixed in Release: 14.12.1240 Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 23: Chapter 5 Firmware Changes And New Feature History

    IEEE 802 LAN. The protocol is formally defined in IEEE 802.1AB. • 1GbE Link Speed: ConnectX-4 Lx adapters now support 1Gb/s Ethernet connectiv- ity in addition to 10GigE, 25GigE, 40GigE, 50GigE •...
  • Page 24 • Wake-on-Lane/Standby • FlexBoot/UEFI support • Non-Volatile Configuration (NVConfig). For the complete list, please refer to Section 8, on page 32 14.12.0780 • Enabled port management. Now one port can be set as Ethernet and one as InfiniBand. Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 25: Chapter 6 Flexboot Changes And New Features

    3.4.650 • Added support for .mrom images larger than 128kB • Added support for ConnectX-4 EN and ConnectX-4 Lx EN • Synced the source with iPXE (upstream sync) • Moved to flat real mode when calling INT 1a,b101 to avoid BIOSes issues •...

  • Page 26: Flexboot Known Issues

    3:40 min for image size of 1GB, TFTP InfiniBand is 1:20 min, and iSCSI boot time mea- surement is 8 seconds for image size of 25 MB. WA: N/A Keywords: PXE Boot Description: PXE boot after iSCSI boot with static configuration is currently not sup- ported. WA: N/A Keywords: PXE Boot Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 27 Description: iSCSI over DCB is not supported. WA: N/A Keywords: iSCSI Description: FlexBoot supports only a single active iSCSI connection. Thus, when iSCSI-boot via Port 1 succeeds to connect but fails to boot, it will fail to connect via Port WA: N/A Keywords: iSCSI Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 28 Description: FlexBoot Boot Menu will not be shown in ConnectX-4 if the physical port is IB. WA: N/A Keywords: User Interface Description: FlexBoot Boot Menu will not be shown in ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-4 Lx if the physical port is IB WA: N/A Keywords: User Interface Description: Large Receive Offload (LRO) and iSCSI may not interoperate due to a bug in current Linux kernel distributions.
  • Page 29 Description: IPv6 can only run if a RADVD service is running in the network. WA: N/A Keywords: Protocols Description: IPv6 over IB is not supported. WA: N/A Keywords: Protocols 655800 Description: IPv6 over WDS is not supported. WA: N/A Keywords: Protocols Mellanox Technologies...
  • Page 30 WA: Disable VLAN in the boot menu before connecting the Ethernet port to the Infini- Band fabric. Keywords: VLAN, Port Management 737512 Description: If the client gets "PXE boot menu" when contacting the DHCP, it will PXE boot first regardless of the boot priority. WA: N/A Keywords: ISCSI, DHCP Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 31: Chapter 7 Unsupported Features And Commands

    • SM is not supported on VFs • DC is not supported in: SR-IOV, and RoCE Unsupported Commands • QUERY_MAD_DEMUX • SET_MAD_DEMUX • PAGE_FAULT_RESUME • ACTIVATE_TRACER • DEACTIVATE_TRACER • ACCESS_REG_SPACE • ACCESS_REG_SPACE_DWORD • ACTIVATE/DEACTIVATE_TRACER • QUERY/MODIFY_SCHED_QUEUE • CREATE_RQ - MEMORY_RQ_RMP Mellanox Technologies...

  • Page 32: Chapter 8 Supported Non-Volatile Configurations

    Name Parameter Index PCI settings 0x80 PCI setting capabilities 0x81 TPT settings 0x82 TPT capabilities 0x83 Option ROM ini 0x100 Option ROM capabilities 0x101 Table 19 - Per host/function Settings Name Parameter Index Wake-on-LAN 0x10 External Port 0x192 Mellanox Technologies...

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