- Update to v4.21.0-1 (jsc#PED-911, jsc#PED-1188)
- Generic
- Added support for NVIDIA ConnectX-7 adapter cards.
- Added additional Flash support for ConnectX-4 Lx and ConnectX-5 adapter cards.
- Python 2.x - Python 2.x is now end-of-life and no longer supported by MFT.
- mstfwreset
- For some configuration changes done using mstconfig, PCI rescan by the user is required.
- Added a new reset-type ("NIC only reset") to mstfwreset which is applicable only
to SmartNIC devices. The new reset-type is also the new default for SmartNIC devices.
In case of reset-type is set to "NIC only reset", mstfwreset will not reset the internal host.
- mstflint
- Querying Vendor Specific Firmware Information from an Nvidia AOC / Transceiver Querying
a firmware cable transceiver is now done using the "mstflint" tool.
- cable/transceivers burning commands provide now validation and extract version from the image files.
- Modified the output of the PCIe link information, removed the device status filed.
- When downgrading to a firmware version that does not support the flash type of
the device, mstflint will present the user a clear error of such scenario.
- mlxconfig
- Enable the users to apply token via MTUSB connected device.
- mstresourceparse
- mstresourceparse will present the union fields according to the selector.
Unions that do not have a selector, will be presented with all the fields as before.
- mstresourcedump
- mstresourcedump tool now runs ~10X faster in mem mode with output to binary file.
- Updated the "--virtual-hca-id" value output to be in a hexadecimal format.
- Memory-Mode, data field is now transferred via memory instead of the resource-dump register.
- mstlink
- Removed irrelevant "eye" info fields in the output of the "show eye" command for PCIe links.
- Removed the device status field from the PCIe info section.
- Added support for "show_eye" command for ConnectX-7 over PCIe links.
- Re-formatted the serdes Tx parameter layout in the "show_sedes_tx" command.
- Added support for the PRBS test mode of Active/Optical CMIS modules.
- Added support for additional configuration flags of the module control parameters.
- Added support for new PRBS TX/RX patterns (--tx_prbs <tx_prbs_mode> & --rx_prbs <rx_prbs_mode>).
- Added new show counters for 16nm devices. To see them run the "show_counter" command.
- Extended the list of the cable information received for 16nm devices when running the "show_module" command.
- Extended the information collection for 7nm and 16nm devices. See "--amber_collect" flag.
- Extended the list of the cable information (LOL, LOS, FSM, and module status)
for CMIS when running the "show_module" command.
- mstdump
- Added an optional parameter of the CSV path (-c | --csv)
which loads the provides the CSV from a fixed location as a DB instead of the default one.
- mstprivhost
- Added a new flag to query all hosts status from the embedded Arm side for Multi-host systems.
- Refresh patches against latest sources:
- Remove-date-time-info-from-build.patch
- Fix-gcc7-and-gcc8.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1007257
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- Update to v4.17.0-1 (jsc#SLE-19261)
- Anti-rollback Protection
- Enabled Anti-rollback protection to prevent old vulnerable firmware
versions from being flashed to the device
- mstlink tool
- Added support for DSFP modules
- Parallel Firmware Burning (DMA Burning)
- Added support for parallel firmware burning.
- Refresh PIE.patch against latest sources
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/913944
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- Update to v4.15.0-1 (jsc#SLE-15968)
- New Supported Devices
- ConnectX-6Lx adapter cards support.
- BlueField-2 adapter cards support.
- mstconfig tool
- QOS ets configuration ConnectX-4 LX 25NIC failed when enabled VFs > 21
- Network programmability (Dynamic Flex Parse) Packet classification on
eCPRI header on receive with DPDK
- Improved BlueField NVMf Performance when working in 4K block size
[BlueField SmartNIC] Support full virtio-net PCI device emulation +
Device Hot Plug - BareMetal case GA
- ConnectX-6 SHARPv2 to achieve line-rate performance
- New Feature - BOOT_INTERRUPT_DIS parameter was added to mlxconfig.
When TRUE, legacy interrupts should not be used for receive/transmit indication.
Polling should be used instead.
- mstdump tool
- Fixed an issue that caused mstflint to print garbage messages.
To fix the bug, the new kernel module should be recompiled and loaded
- mstreg tool
[software steering, ASAP^2, Connection Tracking] adding DP_HASH support
- Virtual output Queuing - exposing descriptors
- New Feature - Increased the registry keys the tool supports and now it exposes the full PRM.
- For additional information, refer to the PRM.
- mstlink tool
- need mstlink to support TX SerDes set --database at Quantum and Spectrum-2
- QSFP DD + CMIS
- mstlink - support for 400G
- mstlink to enforce PRBS at host-management and/ or multi-host systems
- mstlink - add support to configure PRBS
- Read/Write SerDes Tx taps with new SLTP register - mstlink
- Fix the return bad status of SLTP according to the new return values
- New Feature - HDR lane rate is now supported when in Pseudorandom Binary Sequence (PRBS) mode.
- New Feature - Added support for switching between NRZ/PAM4 speeds for new devices that support
- HDR/200G speeds (ConnectX-6, ConnectX-6 Dx, Mellanox Quantum, Mellanox Spectrum 2).
- mstfwreset tool
- handling mstfwreset on SN in different modes
- mstflint tool
[Secure Boot][BlueField-2] EFUSE keys burn tool (Arm OS) for RSA Keys and MKEK
- Support HPCC in CX6Dx
- Add life cycle, secure boot, recovery indications to the flint query full command
- New Feature - Enables the user to insert information manually to the flash on components
such as MFG/DEV GUID/MAC when no information exists after the burn process using the command
"mstflint -d \<device\> sg \<guid\>".
If the information is not inserted manually, the existing GUID/MAC
- information will be used instead.
- New Feature - Enables the user to query the MFA2 file using a PSID.
- mstresourcedump tool
- MSTResoruceDump new tool: Build a dump passer tool for parsing resource dumps
- Added support for "--virtual-hca-id" command. Now the tool can provide info on the virtual HCA
(host channel adapter, NIC) ID.
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- Update to v4.13.3-2
- ConnectX-6DX adapter cards GA support.
- mstflint tool
- New feature - Burning MFA2 images. Enables the user to extract (i.e. unzip)
4MB images from MFA2 archive, that matches the device type and device PSIB.
- New feature - Verifying MFA2 Archive. Enables the user to verify a given MFA2
archive contains the image that matches the given device.
- New feature - Verifying firmware image on a device which operates in livefish mode by
comparing it with an existing binary firmware file.
- Added image-reactivation feature which re-assigns the image signature to the
previous image (in case the new image is faulty) enabling "fwreset" functionality
or to burn a new image.
- mstresourcedump tool
- New mstresourcedump tool added to extracts and prints data segments generated
by the firmware. The dump output is used by Mellanox for debug and troubleshooting.
- mstfwreset tool
- Added support for Socket Direct devices in the mstfwreset tool.
- Added save/restore ATS PCIE capability.
- Added support for Live-Patch in ConnectX-5.
- Added a new reset option (reset-type) to the reset command of mstfwreset.
The user can see the supported reset-types by using the query command.
- mstlink tool
- New feature - Using --json flag formats the output of the tool including all
options & commands in JSON format and prints it.
- Added support for reading the "Link Downed Counter" and "Link Error Recovery Counter"
in the mstlink utility when using InfiniBand protocol only.
- Added support for HDR PCIe grades in the EYE Opening Info in the mstlink utility.
- Added a new flag (show links) to define the valid PCIe links.
- Displays and configures port related data at the physical layer.
- mstconfig tool
- Added the ATS_ENABLED TLV param. When set to TRUE, the device will support Address
Translation Service (ATS).
- Added the VF_VPD_ENABLE parameter to mstconfig. When set, the VPD capability
is exposed to Virtual Functions.
- mstarchive tool
- Added support for MFA2 query using the mstarchive tool.
- mstfwtrace tool
- Extracts and prints trace messages generated by the firmware of 5th generation devices.
This tool supports secure firmware flow only.
- mstreg tool
- Exposes supported access registers, and allows users to obtain information
regarding the registers fields and attributes, and to set and get data with
a specific register.
- mstfwmanager tool
- Supports listing the contents of images archive. When running this command the tool
will list all firmware images within this PLDM package for each image it displays.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/766935
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- Update to v4.11.0-5 (bsc#1136328)
- Build related changes
- Disabled -Werror compiler flag
- Added the option to choose local system libraries if available in the machine
- Enhanced python 3 compatibility
- Removed python shebangs from the scripts
- Fixed multiple rpmbuild issues
- Added --enable-all-static configure flag that allows compilation of static executables, when the the option is supported by the compiler
- All python scripts were aligned to unix encoding
- Fixed multiple builds and compilation issues
- mstprivhost tool
- Added mstprivhost tool to set host privilege configurations
- mstflint tool
- Added missing Rom info attribute for legacy FW qq query
- Fixed query timeout when device is locked
- Renamed former --next_boot_fw_ver to --flashed_version flag. This flag queries the flashed version.
- Note that the previous flag is supported to keep compatibility.
- Fixed an issue with FW upgrade on ConnectX-5 EN
- mstregdup tool
- Fixed segfault
- mstconfig
- Added new params:
- mstfwtrace
- Added fwtracer: in this release, this tool supports secure FW flow only
- libibmad
- Added support for libibmad 12 in addition to 5
- Python tools
- Fixed Python wrapper to work properly in multiple OSes and multiple Python versions
- Added adb generic tools
- Added mstreg tool: To enable this option please use "--enable-adb-genaric-tools" flag
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/728694
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- Update to v4.11.0-3 (bsc#1103497)
- Added option to query only flashed FW version, which reduces the CPU usage during the query.
To use this option you should use "--next_boot_fw_ver" flag.
- Fixed issue of missing information during query.
- Added support for python 3.
- Added option to reduce cpu utilization with "--low_cpu" flag.
- Added compatibility to 1.1.X version, in addition to previously supported 1.0.2 version.
- Added support for Mellanox Quantum switch systems and
ConnectX-6 Ready adapter cards.
- mstarchive tool
The mstarchive tool allows the user to create a file with the mfa2 extension.
The new file contains several binary files of a given firmware for
different adapter cards.
- mstprivhost
The ability to restrict the hosts from configuring the NIC.
Meaning, only the Arm side will have the privilege to configure the NIC.
Note: This utility is supported in BlueField devices only.
- mstconfig in BlueField
Enables the user to manage (grand/restrict) mlxconfig configuration
privileges for BlueField Arm systems.
- Refresh patchest against latest sources:
- Add-armv6-and-armv7-support.patch
- Add-s390-s390x-support.patch
- Fix-gcc7-and-gcc8.patch
- Remove-date-time-info-from-build.patch
- fix-race-condition-during-install.patch
- Drop Fixed-licenses-of-files.patch as it was merged upstream
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/674852
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/science:HPC/mstflint?expand=0&rev=31
- Update to v4.10.0-3 (fate#325998)
- Added mstcongestion
- Update to v4.10.0-2
- mstfwreset not supported
- mstflint now handles all the burn parameters when MCC
is enabled and displays the secure-FW CS tokens.
- mstconfig
- Added the option to query partial parameters
- Added the following new parameters:
FLEX_PARSER_PROFILE_ENABLE
ECPF_ESWITCH_MANAGER
ECPF_PAGE_SUPPLIER
SAFE_MODE_ENABLE
SAFE_MODE_THERSHOLD
BOOT_UNDI_NETWORK_WAIT
- Fixed bug in firmware burning flow
- Refresh patchest against latest sources:
- Remove-date-time-info-from-build.patch
- Add-s390-s390x-support.patch
- Add-armv6-and-armv7-support.patch
- Fix-gcc7-and-gcc8.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/644584
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/science:HPC/mstflint?expand=0&rev=27
- Update patches to fit science:HPC worflow
- Remove old format patches
- mstflint-4.4.0-implicit-declaration.patch
- mstflint-4.4.0-no-date-time.patch
- mstflint-armv6_arch.patch
- mstflint-armv7_arch.patch
- mstflint-gcc7.patch
- mstflint-s390_arch.patch
- Replaced with new format patches
- Remove-date-time-info-from-build.patch
- Add-s390-s390x-support.patch
- Add-armv6-and-armv7-support.patch
- Fix-gcc7-and-gcc8.patch
- Patch was updated to also fix Gcc8 compilation issues
- Drop obsolete patch
- mstfint-mtcr_ul_no_static_lib.patch
- Update to v4.9.0-3
- No release notes available
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/618879
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- Update to v4.9.0-1
* mstfwreset
* Added support for a hot swap (or hot plug) of the PCIe slot.
* Secure Firmware Update
* Added support for Secure Firmware Update to ConnectX-4 adapter cards.
* Enabled signing the package with an RSA 4096 bit keys.
* Added support for setting the GUIDs when Secure Firmware Update is enabled.
* mstconfig
* Added the following mstconfig configuration parameters:
* AUTO_RELOAD
* DRIVER_SETTINGS
* EXP_ROM_PXE_ENABLE
* EXP_ROM_UEFI_ARM_ENABLE
* EXP_ROM_UEFI_X86_ENABLE
* INTERNAL_CPU_MODEL
* IPV4
* IPV6
* PCI_DATA_WR_ORDERING_MODE
* PXE_UNDI
* STATUS_UPDATE
* TCP
* TCPIP
* TRACER_ENABLE
* mstflint
* Added support for FreeBSD with BSD license.
* Secure Boot
* Added support for secure boot to ConnectX-3 adapter cards.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/589145
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