User Manual

● Support CMIS 4.0 using ethtool
● ESXi 8.0 bnxtnvm VIB support (NEW)
● NICCLI configuration management utility
● Vmware ESXi support for NICCLI (NEW)
● bnxtqos integration into NICCLI - Phase 1 and 2
● bnxtqos integration into NICCLI - Phase 3 (NEW)
Reliability, Accessibility, Serviceability (RAS)
● Health check
● Coredump and Crashdump enhancements
● Prevent single point of failure in FW upgrade
● Error recovery support
● Various stability and Stateless error recovery improvements (Generic Adapters only)
● Enhanced FW update error codes
● Crash dump copy to host SDRAM
● Unified certificates for tools & Driver RPMs
Security
● Secure boot
● Secure FW Update
● Firmware lockdown
● SPDM 1.1 Support
Misc
● Network Partitioning - NPAR
● OEM specific vSwitch feature enhancements
● PTP
○ Enhanced PTP support
○ Multi-Host PTP (Sink Mode only) support
○ PTP support on Whitney+
● Performance tuning and Stress/Boundary Tests
● MSI-X, 802.1q VLAN, Ethernet Statistics
● Dual Rate (10G/25G) transceivers (select boards only)
● Live Firmware Update (Linux & DPDK)
● Port shutdown for Whitney+ and Thor
● NPAR1.2 Phase I - Beta Level Support
● NIC Thermal Shutdown Fixes and Improvements
● IRQ coalescing API in the kernel extended with "EQE vs CQE mode
● Manufacturing tool (bnxtmt-lite) for LOM customers
● Manufacturing tool (bnxtmt-lite) for LOM customers - ARM support
● XDP Single Buffer Validation and XDP Multibuffer PoC