The BF3 DOCA currently does not support RHEL 9.5/9.6

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The BF3 DOCA currently does not support RHEL 9.5. Do you know when support is expected to be released?"

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Hello~

Based on my search, I can provide information about DOCA support for RHEL 9.5 on BF3 (BlueField-3):

According to the NVIDIA DGX Software for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 documentation, RHEL 9.5 support was added in the EL9-25.04 release (released April 10, 2025). This release specifically includes support for:

  1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5

  2. DOCA-OFED 2.9.2 (the OFED functionality for BlueField devices)

  3. BlueField-3 DPU in NIC mode with firmware version 32.43.2402

For BlueField-3 specifically, the documentation indicates that RHEL 9.5 is supported with the DOCA-OFED installation profile v2.9.1/2.9.2. The matching firmware version for BlueField-3 DPUs in NIC mode is 32.43.2402.

So yes, BF3 DOCA does support RHEL 9.5 as of the April 2025 release (EL9-25.04). If you’re using an earlier version, you would need to upgrade to this release to get RHEL 9.5 support.

/HyungKwang

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Hi Hyungkwangc, thank you for your reply and for addressing the question.

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RHEL-9.5 and the Rocky/Alma etc variants has been out of support since May, 31, 2025.

Minimum RHEL/Rocky/Alma-9 is now 9.6 and I am not finding RPMs for that release and the RPMs for RHEL-9.5 are not working on systems that have upgraded from el-9.5 to el-9.6.

When will drivers be available for the current standard support version RHEL 9, which is 9.6?