User Manual

Summary
● Gold Release for the Broadcom Software Release 227.1 project.
● This is a Gold Release of 5750x(Thor) and 5741x(Whitney+) software kit for single host
adapters.
● This release is based on SIT build 227.1.111.0b
● Certified EFI, Windows, SUSE and VMWare ESX drivers are marked with an asterisk in
the ‘Release Version Information’ Table.
○ SUSE signed packages are available in ‘Driver’ → ‘Broadcom NetXtreme-E
Linux Installer’ under ‘Linux/KMP-L2-RoCE/KMP/Novell’
○ ESXi signed drivers are to be downloaded from VMware.com
○ Windows signed drivers are available in ‘Driver’ → ‘Broadcom NetXtreme-E
Windows Drivers’
Feature Support
The following features are supported in this release. New features in addition to the features of
the last Gold Release 226.1 are marked with ‘NEW’
Core support
● 5750X (Thor) B2 Support
● Base Ethernet Functionality (L2 drivers)
● Link Establishment & Maintenance: Auto Negotiation, Auto Detect, Link Training
● Pre-Boot: uEFI, iPXE, uEFI iSCSI stack
Poll mode drivers
● DPDK
● DPDK 21.11 PMD
● ENS driver support for VMware Enhanced Data Path
● Windows NDIS Poll Mode Support
● ESXi 8.0 ENS Hardware LRO support
● ESXi 8.0 ENS RSS support
Virtualization
● SR-IOV
● MultiQueue