diff --git a/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.in b/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ecaf9f884db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.in
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#!/usr/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if [[ $# -lt 4 ]]; then
+      exit 0
+fi
+
+pkg_name="$1"
+kver="$2"
+krel="$3"
+karch="$4"
+
+base_nevra="kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-@MLNX_OFA_VERSION@-${kver}-${krel}.${karch}"
+devel_nevra="kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-@MLNX_OFA_VERSION@-devel-${kver}-${krel}.${karch}"
+log_file="/var/log/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.log"
+
+notify() {
+      local msg="$1"
+      echo "$(date -Iseconds) [mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate] ${msg}" >> "$log_file" 2>&1 || true
+      # Write to controlling terminal if available
+      echo "[mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate] ${msg}" > /dev/tty 2>/dev/null || true
+      logger -t mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate -- "${msg}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+}
+
+# Always log invocation first so we can confirm the hook fired.
+notify "invoked: pkg=${pkg_name} base_nevra=${base_nevra}"
+
+# Only react to kernel package transactions.
+if [[ ! "$pkg_name" =~ ^kernel($|-) ]]; then
+      notify "skipping non-kernel pkg=${pkg_name}"
+      exit 0
+fi
+
+notify "detected kernel transaction; checking for existing mlnx-ofa_kernel kmod"
+
+# Only auto-install if mlnx-ofa_kernel kmod was previously installed.
+if ! rpm -qa kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-* >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      notify "no existing mlnx-ofa_kernel kmod found; skipping auto-install"
+      exit 0
+fi
+
+notify "found existing mlnx-ofa_kernel kmod; will attempt to install matching version for ${kver}-${krel}"
+
+# post_transaction fires while dnf5 may still hold its lock; run the install
+# in a fully detached child that retries with exit_on_lock=0.
+{
+      for _ in 1 2 3; do
+            if dnf5 -y --setopt=exit_on_lock=0 install "$base_nevra" "$devel_nevra" \
+                  >> "$log_file" 2>&1; then
+                  notify "install succeeded"
+                  exit 0
+            fi
+            if dnf5 -y --setopt=exit_on_lock=0 install "$base_nevra" \
+                  >> "$log_file" 2>&1; then
+                  notify "install succeeded (base only)"
+                  exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 5
+      done
+      notify "all retries failed"
+} &
+disown
+
+# Best effort hook: do not fail the original transaction.
+exit 0
diff --git a/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions b/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..af49bfd9ccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+post_transaction:kernel*:in:enabled=1:/usr/libexec/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate ${pkg.name} ${pkg.version} ${pkg.release} ${pkg.arch}
diff --git a/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa_kernel.comp.toml b/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa_kernel.comp.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fc646648005
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa_kernel.comp.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# mlnx-ofa_kernel — userspace + headers + source companion to the
+# kmod-mlnx-ofa subpackage built by the kernel component.
+#
+# Local spec because there's no upstream Fedora package for this — the
+# mlnx-ofa_kernel sources only ship inside NVIDIA's MLNX_OFED_SRC bundle,
+# which we download as the spec's Source0 and unpack in %prep (see the
+# spec's %prep section for the bundle → SRPM → inner tarball extraction).
+[components.mlnx-ofa_kernel]
+spec = { type = "local", path = "mlnx-ofa_kernel.spec" }
+
+# Manual release calculation — rpmautospec would try to derive Release: from
+# `git log` over the spec file, which has nothing to do with the upstream
+# tarball version. Hand-curate the changelog and bump Release: explicitly
+# when the spec changes.
+release = { calculation = "manual" }
+
+# Download NVIDIA's MLNX_OFED source bundle (~70 MB). The kernel component
+# downloads the same bundle (see base/comps/kernel/kernel.comp.toml); both
+# components extract the inner mlnx-ofa_kernel SRPM out of it in their
+# respective %prep sections. Keep the URL and hash in sync between the two.
+[[components.mlnx-ofa_kernel.source-files]]
+filename = "MLNX_OFED_SRC-26.04-0.8.5.0.tgz"
+hash = "1829d190f84f6d54597b98c40e162afa64939e608f7eaf494ac626c454e4d0310e14dedb7108326e9c9a667634eb27cf751dae806249f1783a66c8fc07aacd13"
+hash-type = "SHA512"
+origin = { type = "download", uri = "https://linux.mellanox.com/public/repo/doca/3.4.0/SOURCES/mlnx_ofed/MLNX_OFED_SRC-26.04-0.8.5.0.tgz" }
diff --git a/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa_kernel.spec b/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa_kernel.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..32a51f86184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/comps/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa_kernel.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+%global _name        mlnx-ofa_kernel
+%global bundle_release   0.8.5.0
+%global mlnx_ofa_release OFED.26.04.0.8.5.1
+%global configure_options --with-core-mod --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod --with-addr_trans-mod --with-mlx5-mod --with-mlxfw-mod --with-ipoib-mod
+
+Name:           mlnx-ofa_kernel
+Version:        26.04
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        NVIDIA / Mellanox OFED userspace utilities
+License:        GPLv2
+URL:            https://network.nvidia.com/products/infiniband-drivers/linux/mlnx_ofed/
+Vendor:         Microsoft Corporation
+Distribution:   Azure Linux
+Source0:        MLNX_OFED_SRC-%{version}-%{bundle_release}.tgz
+Source1:        mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.in
+Source2:        mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
+
+BuildArch:      noarch
+BuildRequires:  systemd-rpm-macros
+BuildRequires:  cpio
+BuildRequires:  rpm-build
+Requires(post): systemd
+Requires(preun): systemd
+Requires(postun): systemd
+
+Requires:       kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}
+Requires:       kmod
+Requires:       coreutils
+Requires:       pciutils
+Requires:       grep
+Requires:       procps-ng
+Requires:       lsof
+Requires:       iproute
+Requires:       ethtool
+Requires:       libdnf5-plugin-actions
+
+%description
+Userspace utilities for the NVIDIA / Mellanox InfiniBand and Ethernet drivers
+(mlnx-ofa_kernel %{version}): openibd service, interface manager scripts,
+ibdev2netdev, modprobe configs, and udev rules. The kernel modules themselves
+ship in the matching kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version} package.
+
+%package source
+Summary:        Source of the mlnx-ofa_kernel driver
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description source
+Pristine source of the mlnx-ofa_kernel %{version} driver under
+/usr/src/ofa_kernel-%{version}/source/.
+
+%prep
+%setup -T -c -n %{_name}-%{version}
+tar -xf %{SOURCE0} --wildcards --strip-components=2 \
+    'MLNX_OFED_SRC-*/SRPMS/mlnx-ofa_kernel-*.src.rpm'
+rpm2cpio mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}-%{mlnx_ofa_release}.src.rpm \
+    | cpio -idm '*mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}.tgz'
+tar -xf mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}.tgz --strip-components=1
+rm -f mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}-%{mlnx_ofa_release}.src.rpm \
+      mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}.tgz
+
+%build
+# Intentionally empty: userspace ships as plain scripts/configs/units.
+
+%install
+SRC=ofed_scripts
+
+# Init script + systemd units
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/openibd                       %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/openibd
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/openibd.service               %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/openibd.service
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/mlnx_interface_mgr@.service   %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/systemd/system/mlnx_interface_mgr@.service
+
+# Configs
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/openib.conf                   %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/openib.conf
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/mlx5.conf                     %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/mlx5.conf
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/mlnx.conf                     %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/mlnx.conf
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/mlnx-bf.conf                  %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/mlnx-bf.conf
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/ib_ipoib.conf                 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf
+
+# Udev rules + helpers
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/83-mlnx-sf-name.rules         %{buildroot}/lib/udev/rules.d/83-mlnx-sf-name.rules
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/90-ib.rules                   %{buildroot}/lib/udev/rules.d/90-ib.rules
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/sf-rep-netdev-rename          %{buildroot}/lib/udev/sf-rep-netdev-rename
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/auxdev-sf-netdev-rename       %{buildroot}/lib/udev/auxdev-sf-netdev-rename
+
+# Interface manager + conf manager — openibd calls these by absolute /bin path.
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/mlnx_conf_mgr.sh              %{buildroot}/bin/mlnx_conf_mgr.sh
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/mlnx_interface_mgr.sh         %{buildroot}/bin/mlnx_interface_mgr.sh
+
+# sbin tools
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/ibdev2netdev                  %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/ibdev2netdev
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/setup_mr_cache.sh             %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/setup_mr_cache.sh
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/mlnx_drv_ctl                  %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/mlnx_drv_ctl
+
+# /usr/share/mlnx_ofed/ helpers
+install -d %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/mlnx_ofed
+install -m 0755 $SRC/mlnx_bf_assign_ct_cores.sh       %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/mlnx_ofed/mlnx_bf_assign_ct_cores.sh
+install -m 0755 $SRC/mod_load_funcs                   %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/mlnx_ofed/mod_load_funcs
+
+# DNF5 actions hook: when kernel-core is added/upgraded, install the matching
+# mlnx-ofa kmod package for that exact kernel EVR.
+install -d %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}
+sed -e 's|@MLNX_OFA_VERSION@|%{version}|g' %{SOURCE1} > %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate
+chmod 0755 %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate
+
+install -D -m 0644 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dnf/libdnf5-plugins/actions.d/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
+
+cat > %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/info << EOFINFO
+#!/bin/bash
+echo prefix=%{_prefix}
+echo
+echo "Configure options: %{configure_options}"
+echo
+EOFINFO
+chmod 0755 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/info
+
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/src/ofa_kernel-%{version}/source
+cp -a %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/. \
+      %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/src/ofa_kernel-%{version}/source/
+ln -s ofa_kernel-%{version}/source \
+      %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/src/mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}
+
+%post
+%systemd_post openibd.service
+
+%preun
+%systemd_preun openibd.service
+
+%postun
+%systemd_postun_with_restart openibd.service
+
+%files
+%license COPYING
+%doc ofed_scripts/82-net-setup-link.rules
+%doc ofed_scripts/vf-net-link-name.sh
+%dir %{_sysconfdir}/infiniband
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/openib.conf
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/mlx5.conf
+%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/info
+%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/openibd
+%{_unitdir}/openibd.service
+%{_sysconfdir}/systemd/system/mlnx_interface_mgr@.service
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/mlnx.conf
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/mlnx-bf.conf
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf
+/lib/udev/sf-rep-netdev-rename
+/lib/udev/auxdev-sf-netdev-rename
+/lib/udev/rules.d/83-mlnx-sf-name.rules
+/lib/udev/rules.d/90-ib.rules
+%{_datadir}/mlnx_ofed/
+%{_sbindir}/ibdev2netdev
+%{_sbindir}/setup_mr_cache.sh
+%{_sbindir}/mlnx_drv_ctl
+/usr/libexec/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/dnf/libdnf5-plugins/actions.d/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
+/bin/mlnx_interface_mgr.sh
+/bin/mlnx_conf_mgr.sh
+
+%files source
+%license COPYING
+%{_prefix}/src/ofa_kernel-%{version}/source
+%{_prefix}/src/mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Jun 11 2026 Elaheh Dehghani <edehghani@microsoft.com> - 26.04-1
+- Initial AZL4 import: userspace + source companion to kmod-mlnx-ofa.
diff --git a/locks/mlnx-ofa_kernel.lock b/locks/mlnx-ofa_kernel.lock
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..483c3da834e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/locks/mlnx-ofa_kernel.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Managed by azldev component update. Do not edit manually.
+version = 1
+input-fingerprint = 'sha256:269090613d55c00f658be557dc5c30346740b3c57e4d01ba4cf71e5941a5892d'
diff --git a/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.in b/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ecaf9f884db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.in
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#!/usr/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if [[ $# -lt 4 ]]; then
+      exit 0
+fi
+
+pkg_name="$1"
+kver="$2"
+krel="$3"
+karch="$4"
+
+base_nevra="kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-@MLNX_OFA_VERSION@-${kver}-${krel}.${karch}"
+devel_nevra="kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-@MLNX_OFA_VERSION@-devel-${kver}-${krel}.${karch}"
+log_file="/var/log/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.log"
+
+notify() {
+      local msg="$1"
+      echo "$(date -Iseconds) [mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate] ${msg}" >> "$log_file" 2>&1 || true
+      # Write to controlling terminal if available
+      echo "[mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate] ${msg}" > /dev/tty 2>/dev/null || true
+      logger -t mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate -- "${msg}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+}
+
+# Always log invocation first so we can confirm the hook fired.
+notify "invoked: pkg=${pkg_name} base_nevra=${base_nevra}"
+
+# Only react to kernel package transactions.
+if [[ ! "$pkg_name" =~ ^kernel($|-) ]]; then
+      notify "skipping non-kernel pkg=${pkg_name}"
+      exit 0
+fi
+
+notify "detected kernel transaction; checking for existing mlnx-ofa_kernel kmod"
+
+# Only auto-install if mlnx-ofa_kernel kmod was previously installed.
+if ! rpm -qa kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-* >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      notify "no existing mlnx-ofa_kernel kmod found; skipping auto-install"
+      exit 0
+fi
+
+notify "found existing mlnx-ofa_kernel kmod; will attempt to install matching version for ${kver}-${krel}"
+
+# post_transaction fires while dnf5 may still hold its lock; run the install
+# in a fully detached child that retries with exit_on_lock=0.
+{
+      for _ in 1 2 3; do
+            if dnf5 -y --setopt=exit_on_lock=0 install "$base_nevra" "$devel_nevra" \
+                  >> "$log_file" 2>&1; then
+                  notify "install succeeded"
+                  exit 0
+            fi
+            if dnf5 -y --setopt=exit_on_lock=0 install "$base_nevra" \
+                  >> "$log_file" 2>&1; then
+                  notify "install succeeded (base only)"
+                  exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 5
+      done
+      notify "all retries failed"
+} &
+disown
+
+# Best effort hook: do not fail the original transaction.
+exit 0
diff --git a/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions b/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..af49bfd9ccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+post_transaction:kernel*:in:enabled=1:/usr/libexec/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate ${pkg.name} ${pkg.version} ${pkg.release} ${pkg.arch}
diff --git a/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa_kernel.spec b/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa_kernel.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..efb9e0dde16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/mlnx-ofa_kernel.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+# This spec file has been modified by azldev to include build configuration overlays.
+# Do not edit manually; changes may be overwritten.
+
+%global _name        mlnx-ofa_kernel
+%global bundle_release   0.8.5.0
+%global mlnx_ofa_release OFED.26.04.0.8.5.1
+%global configure_options --with-core-mod --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod --with-addr_trans-mod --with-mlx5-mod --with-mlxfw-mod --with-ipoib-mod
+
+Name:           mlnx-ofa_kernel
+Version:        26.04
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        NVIDIA / Mellanox OFED userspace utilities
+License:        GPLv2
+URL:            https://network.nvidia.com/products/infiniband-drivers/linux/mlnx_ofed/
+Vendor:         Microsoft Corporation
+Distribution:   Azure Linux
+Source0:        MLNX_OFED_SRC-%{version}-%{bundle_release}.tgz
+Source1:        mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate.in
+Source2:        mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
+
+BuildArch:      noarch
+BuildRequires:  systemd-rpm-macros
+BuildRequires:  cpio
+BuildRequires:  rpm-build
+Requires(post): systemd
+Requires(preun): systemd
+Requires(postun): systemd
+
+Requires:       kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}
+Requires:       kmod
+Requires:       coreutils
+Requires:       pciutils
+Requires:       grep
+Requires:       procps-ng
+Requires:       lsof
+Requires:       iproute
+Requires:       ethtool
+Requires:       libdnf5-plugin-actions
+
+%description
+Userspace utilities for the NVIDIA / Mellanox InfiniBand and Ethernet drivers
+(mlnx-ofa_kernel %{version}): openibd service, interface manager scripts,
+ibdev2netdev, modprobe configs, and udev rules. The kernel modules themselves
+ship in the matching kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version} package.
+
+%package source
+Summary:        Source of the mlnx-ofa_kernel driver
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description source
+Pristine source of the mlnx-ofa_kernel %{version} driver under
+/usr/src/ofa_kernel-%{version}/source/.
+
+%prep
+%setup -T -c -n %{_name}-%{version}
+tar -xf %{SOURCE0} --wildcards --strip-components=2 \
+    'MLNX_OFED_SRC-*/SRPMS/mlnx-ofa_kernel-*.src.rpm'
+rpm2cpio mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}-%{mlnx_ofa_release}.src.rpm \
+    | cpio -idm '*mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}.tgz'
+tar -xf mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}.tgz --strip-components=1
+rm -f mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}-%{mlnx_ofa_release}.src.rpm \
+      mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}.tgz
+
+%build
+# Intentionally empty: userspace ships as plain scripts/configs/units.
+
+%install
+SRC=ofed_scripts
+
+# Init script + systemd units
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/openibd                       %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/openibd
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/openibd.service               %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/openibd.service
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/mlnx_interface_mgr@.service   %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/systemd/system/mlnx_interface_mgr@.service
+
+# Configs
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/openib.conf                   %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/openib.conf
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/mlx5.conf                     %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/mlx5.conf
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/mlnx.conf                     %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/mlnx.conf
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/mlnx-bf.conf                  %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/mlnx-bf.conf
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/ib_ipoib.conf                 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf
+
+# Udev rules + helpers
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/83-mlnx-sf-name.rules         %{buildroot}/lib/udev/rules.d/83-mlnx-sf-name.rules
+install -D -m 0644 $SRC/90-ib.rules                   %{buildroot}/lib/udev/rules.d/90-ib.rules
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/sf-rep-netdev-rename          %{buildroot}/lib/udev/sf-rep-netdev-rename
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/auxdev-sf-netdev-rename       %{buildroot}/lib/udev/auxdev-sf-netdev-rename
+
+# Interface manager + conf manager — openibd calls these by absolute /bin path.
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/mlnx_conf_mgr.sh              %{buildroot}/bin/mlnx_conf_mgr.sh
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/mlnx_interface_mgr.sh         %{buildroot}/bin/mlnx_interface_mgr.sh
+
+# sbin tools
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/ibdev2netdev                  %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/ibdev2netdev
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/setup_mr_cache.sh             %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/setup_mr_cache.sh
+install -D -m 0755 $SRC/mlnx_drv_ctl                  %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/mlnx_drv_ctl
+
+# /usr/share/mlnx_ofed/ helpers
+install -d %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/mlnx_ofed
+install -m 0755 $SRC/mlnx_bf_assign_ct_cores.sh       %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/mlnx_ofed/mlnx_bf_assign_ct_cores.sh
+install -m 0755 $SRC/mod_load_funcs                   %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/mlnx_ofed/mod_load_funcs
+
+# DNF5 actions hook: when kernel-core is added/upgraded, install the matching
+# mlnx-ofa kmod package for that exact kernel EVR.
+install -d %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}
+sed -e 's|@MLNX_OFA_VERSION@|%{version}|g' %{SOURCE1} > %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate
+chmod 0755 %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate
+
+install -D -m 0644 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dnf/libdnf5-plugins/actions.d/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
+
+cat > %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/info << EOFINFO
+#!/bin/bash
+echo prefix=%{_prefix}
+echo
+echo "Configure options: %{configure_options}"
+echo
+EOFINFO
+chmod 0755 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/info
+
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/src/ofa_kernel-%{version}/source
+cp -a %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/. \
+      %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/src/ofa_kernel-%{version}/source/
+ln -s ofa_kernel-%{version}/source \
+      %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/src/mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}
+
+%post
+%systemd_post openibd.service
+
+%preun
+%systemd_preun openibd.service
+
+%postun
+%systemd_postun_with_restart openibd.service
+
+%files
+%license COPYING
+%doc ofed_scripts/82-net-setup-link.rules
+%doc ofed_scripts/vf-net-link-name.sh
+%dir %{_sysconfdir}/infiniband
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/openib.conf
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/mlx5.conf
+%{_sysconfdir}/infiniband/info
+%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/openibd
+%{_unitdir}/openibd.service
+%{_sysconfdir}/systemd/system/mlnx_interface_mgr@.service
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/mlnx.conf
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/mlnx-bf.conf
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/ib_ipoib.conf
+/lib/udev/sf-rep-netdev-rename
+/lib/udev/auxdev-sf-netdev-rename
+/lib/udev/rules.d/83-mlnx-sf-name.rules
+/lib/udev/rules.d/90-ib.rules
+%{_datadir}/mlnx_ofed/
+%{_sbindir}/ibdev2netdev
+%{_sbindir}/setup_mr_cache.sh
+%{_sbindir}/mlnx_drv_ctl
+/usr/libexec/mlnx-ofa-kmod-autoupdate
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/dnf/libdnf5-plugins/actions.d/mlnx-ofa-kmod.actions
+/bin/mlnx_interface_mgr.sh
+/bin/mlnx_conf_mgr.sh
+
+%files source
+%license COPYING
+%{_prefix}/src/ofa_kernel-%{version}/source
+%{_prefix}/src/mlnx-ofa_kernel-%{version}
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Jun 11 2026 Elaheh Dehghani <edehghani@microsoft.com> - 26.04-1
+- Initial AZL4 import: userspace + source companion to kmod-mlnx-ofa.
diff --git a/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/sources b/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/sources
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..27e282b62f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/specs/m/mlnx-ofa_kernel/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SHA512 (MLNX_OFED_SRC-26.04-0.8.5.0.tgz) = 1829d190f84f6d54597b98c40e162afa64939e608f7eaf494ac626c454e4d0310e14dedb7108326e9c9a667634eb27cf751dae806249f1783a66c8fc07aacd13