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doc: update mlx5 guide

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Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
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Shahaf Shuler 2017-10-30 12:58:25 +02:00 committed by Ferruh Yigit
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@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ Features
- Hardware checksum TX offload for VXLAN and GRE.
- RX interrupts.
- Statistics query including Basic, Extended and per queue.
- Rx HW timestamp.
Limitations
-----------
@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ Limitations
- Count action for RTE flow is only supported in Mellanox OFED 4.2.
- Flows with a VXLAN Network Identifier equal (or ends to be equal)
to 0 are not supported.
- VXLAN TSO and checksum offloads are not supported on VM.
Configuration
-------------
@ -355,8 +357,9 @@ releases.
RMDA Core with Linux Kernel
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Minimal kernel version : 4.13-rc4 (see `Linux installation documentation`_)
- Minimal rdma-core version: v15 (see `RDMA Core installation documentation`_)
- Minimal kernel version : v4.14 or the most recent 4.14-rc (see `Linux installation documentation`_)
- Minimal rdma-core version: v15+ commit 0c5f5765213a ("Merge pull request #227 from yishaih/tm")
(see `RDMA Core installation documentation`_)
.. _`Linux installation documentation`: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/plain/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
.. _`RDMA Core installation documentation`: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/master/README.md
@ -367,10 +370,10 @@ Mellanox OFED
- Mellanox OFED version: **4.2**.
- firmware version:
- ConnectX-4: **12.20.1010** and above.
- ConnectX-4 Lx: **14.20.1010** and above.
- ConnectX-5: **16.20.1010** and above.
- ConnectX-5 Ex: **16.20.1010** and above.
- ConnectX-4: **12.21.1000** and above.
- ConnectX-4 Lx: **14.21.1000** and above.
- ConnectX-5: **16.21.1000** and above.
- ConnectX-5 Ex: **16.21.1000** and above.
While these libraries and kernel modules are available on OpenFabrics
Alliance's `website <https://www.openfabrics.org/>`__ and provided by package
@ -423,7 +426,7 @@ Quick Start Guide on OFED
.. code-block:: console
./mlnxofedinstall
./mlnxofedinstall --upstream-libs --dpdk
3. Verify the firmware is the correct one: