1.0 Overview
The following build adds fixes and new function. See corresponding Change History document for additional information.
1.1 Build Information Build ID /
Image Name: ibm_fw_bios_aa730.122.035.img
Version Number: 01AA730_122_035
Version Date: 09/18/2013
1.2 Limitations
N/A
1.3 Level recommendation and prerequisites for the update
* See corresponding Change History document for additional information.
- A full backup should be completed and verified prior to running this, or any other system upgrade.
Prerequisite:
AMM Level BPET62R or later
1.4 Dependencies
N/A
2.0 Installation and setup instructions
The procedure to install the BIOS image file using the main partition are as follows:
2.1 Send the file to the local hard drive of the operating system.
2.2 Login on the console with an ID that has root authority
2.3 Use the "update_flash" program to update the system giving it the option "-f" followed by the path to the image (.img) file on the local operating system.
2.3.0 Location of "update_flash" command:
AIX: /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/update_flash
Linux: /usr/sbin/update_flash
2.3.0.1 Specific packages are needed for Linux which will install the "update_flash" command.
These packages can be found at
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/
2.3.1 To commit an image to the PERM side, use the "-c" option on the "update_flash" command.
2.3.2 To reject an image on the TEMP side, use the "-r" option on the "update_flash" command.
2.4 Use the "ldfware" command to update systems with the Virtual I/O Server operating system installed. The "--file" option followed by the path to the image (.img) file should be provided.
2.5 For the shell script files (*.sh), the procedure to install the bundled BIOS file using the main partition is as follows:
2.5.1 Send the file to the local hard drive of the operating system (be sure to use the HTTP protocol option if downloading from the web).
2.5.2 Login on the console with an ID that has root authority
2.5.3 For the shell script files, change the permissions on the file to be executable. Then run the file as a command :
chmod +x ibm_fw_bios_aa730.122.035_aix_ppc64.sh
./ibm_fw_bios_aa730.122.035_aix_ppc64.sh
This executable file will unpack the .img file and run update_flash -f (.img) for you.
BE CAREFUL THIS WILL REBOOT THE BLADE SERVER WITHOUT CONFIRMATION!
2.6 To verify the firmware you have installed, use "-v" option on the "update_flash" command.
2.7 To commit an image to the PERM side, use the "-c" option on the "update_flash" command.
2.8 To reject an image on the TEMP side, use the "-r" option on the "update_flash" command.
2.9 To extract the BIOS image file from the package, use the "-x" option on the "update_flash" command.
3.0 Change History
Version 7.3.8 01AA730_122_035 - 09/18/13
New features & functions
Support was dropped for Secured Socket Layer (SSL) Version 2 and
SSL weak and medium cipher suites in the service processor web
server (Ligthttpd). Unsupported web browser connections to the
Advanced System Management Interface (ASMI) secured port 443
(using https://) will now be rejected if those browsers do not
support SSL version 3. Supported web browsers for Power7 ASMI
are Netscape (version 9.0.0.4), Microsoft Internet Explorer
(version 7.0), Mozilla Firefox (version 2.0.0.11), and Opera
(version 9.24).
System firmware changes that affect all systems
SW200517: On systems with utility processors, an accounting
problem with utility processor minutes was fixed.
SW204472: A problem was fixed that caused a migrated partition
to reboot during transfer to a VIOS 2.2.2.0, and later, target
system. A manual reboot would be required if transferred to a
target system running an earlier VIOS release. Migration
recovery may also be necessary.
XB124402: A problem was fixed that caused expansion card
BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager (BOFM) data applied using
IBM Fabric Manager (IFM) to not be reflected in the hardware
configuration on the Advanced Manager Module (AMM).
SW190390: A problem was fixed that caused a service processor
dump to be generated with SRC B18187DA "NETC_RECV_ER" logged.
FW604796: A problem was fixed that caused a L2 cache error
to not guard out the faulty processor, allowing the system to
checkstop again on an error to the same faulty processor.
SW212564: A problem was fixed that caused a HMC code update
failure for the FSP on the accept operation with SRC B1811402
or FSP is unable to boot on the updated side.
SW208034: A problem was fixed that caused a 1000911E platform
event log (PEL) to be marked as not call home. The PEL is
now a call home to allow for correction. This PEL is logged
when the hypervisor has changed the Machine Type Model Serial
Number (MTMS) of an external enclosure to UTMP.xxx.xxxx
because it cannot read the vital product data (VPD), or the
VPD has invalid characters, or if the MTMS is a duplicate to
another enclosure.
SW210259: A problem was fixed that caused the state of the
Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA) port to be reported as down when
the physical port is actually up.
SW215660: A problem was fixed that caused the system information
LED to be lit without a corresponding SRC and error log for the
event. This problem typically occurs when an operating system
on a partition terminates abnormally.
SW219046: A problem was fixed that caused a system checkstop
during hypervisor time keeping services. This deferred fix
addresses a problem that has a very low probability of occurrence.
As such customers may wait for the next planned service window to
activate the deferred fix via a system reboot.
System firmware changes that affect all systems
SW204726: On systems with a ethernet PCI-Express adapter under
a PLX switch, an extended error handling (EEH) problem was fixed
in run-time abstraction services (RTAS) that caused fundamental
resets of the adapter to fail during error recovery, leaving the
adapter in a non-pingable state and off the network. Besides
failure to ping, the other symptom is that an AIX OS command of
"enstat -d entX" where X is the adapter number will fail with the
following message: "enstat -0909-004, Unable to get statistics
on device entX, errno=11".
SW219936: A problem was fixed in the run-time abstraction
services (RTAS) extended error handling (EEH) for fundamental
reset that caused partitions to crash during adapter updates.
The fundamental reset of adapters now returns a valid return
code. The adapter drivers using fundamental reset affected by
this fix are the following:
QLogic PCIe Fibre Channel adapters (combo card)
IBM PCIe Obsidian
Emulex BE3-based ethernet adapters
Broadcom-based PCIe2 4-port 1Gb ethernet
Broadcom-based FlexSystem EN2024 4-port 1Gb ethernet for
compute nodes
Version 7.3.7 01AA730_114_035 - 04/04/13
System firmware changes that affect all systems
XB106125: A problem was fixed that prevented the Advanced Management
Module (AMM) and Chassis Management Module (CMM) from displaying the
blade's gateway IP address when DHCP is enabled.
SW155542: A problem was fixed that caused the hypervisor to fail to
read the backplane VPD. When this problem occurs, the blade will not
boot.
SW165716: A problem was fixed that caused SRC B1813221, which
indicates a failure of the battery on the blade, to be erroneously
logged after a service processor reset or power cycle.
System firmware changes that affect certain systems
SW190437: On systems running Active Memory Sharing (AMS) partitions,
a problem was fixed that may arise due to the incorrect handling of
a return code in an error path during the logical partition
migration (LPM) of an AMS partition.
SW190463: On systems running Active Memory Sharing (AMS) partitions,
a timing problem was fixed that may occur if the system is undergoing
AMS pool size changes.
SW185413: A problem was fixed that was caused by an attempt to modify
a virtual adapter from the management console command line when the
command specifies it is an Ethernet adapter, but the virtual ID
specified is for an adapter type other than Ethernet. The managed
system has to be rebooted to restore communications with the
management console when this problem occurs; SRC B7000602 is also
logged.
Version 7.3.6.1 01AA730_099_035 - 12/12/12
System firmware changes that affect all systems
SW165659: HIPER/Not pervasive DEFERRED : A problem was fixed that
caused a system crash with SRC B170E540.
SW166046, SW166729 HIPER/Not pervasive: A related problem was also
fixed that could cause a live lock on the power bus resulting in a
system crash.
SW160763: The firmware was enhanced to support the installation of
POWER7 blades in an 8852 BladeCenter H chassis with midplane
revision 11 (FRU P/N 46C9700) or later.
Version 7.3.6 01AA730_094_035 - 08/22/12
System firmware changes that affect all systems
SW133279: A problem was fixed that caused B1xx4201 to be
erroneously logged during activation of the blade. This also
caused a sysplanar0 entry in the AIX error log, and a power
platform dump to be taken.
Version 7.3.5.1 01AA730_087_035 - 05/18/12
System firmware changes that affect all systems
SW126267: A problem was fixed that prevented the USB DVD drive in the 7226-1U3 Multi-Media Enclosure from being listed in the System Management Service (SMS) menus.
XB061434: A problem was fixed that caused the Advanced Management Module (AMM) to display two Ethernet ports, instead of one, for PS703 and PS704 blades.
System firmware changes that affect certain systems
SW110748, SW120821: On PS703 and PS704 blades in a BladeCenter S chassis with a 2/4 port high-speed daughter card feature code (F/C) 8291 installed, a problem was fixed that caused SRC BA180020 to be erroneously logged.
XB097634: On a PS702 blade, a problem was fixed that caused only one daughter card's VPD to be displayed on the AMM when two daughter cards were installed.
Version 7.3.5 01AA730_078_035 - 03/14/12
System firmware changes that affect all systems
-XB096175: HIPER/Pervasive On PS702 blades, a problem was fixed that caused the blade system to become unresponsive with SRC B120E204
when a BladeCenter power supply was replaced.
-SW125746: The firmware was enhanced to stop logging informational
SRC B1768468 during a firmware installation.
-SW079788: On PS703 and PS704 blades, a problem was fixed that caused SRC B181D506 to be erroneously logged when power was removed.
-SW107494: The firmware was enhanced such that if the power cap limits cannot be set at standby, the error logged will be unrecoverable instead of informational.
-SW110620: The firmware was enhanced to increase the threshold for recoverable SRC B113E506 so that the processor core reporting the
SRC is not guarded out. This prevents unnecessary performance loss and the unnecessary replacement of hardware.
-SW104448: A problem was fixed that caused SRCs B7006790 and B7006A21
to be erroneously logged.
-SW075476: On the System Management Services (SMS) remote IPL (RIPL) menus, a problem caused the SMS menu to continue to show that an
Ethernet device is configured for iSCSI, even though the user has changed it to BOOTP.
-SW111607: The firmware was enhanced to log SRCs BA180030 and BA180031 as informational instead of predictive.
System firmware changes that affect certain systems
-SW121436: A problem was fixed that impacted performance if profiling was enabled in one or more partitions. Performance profiling is enabled:
- In an AIX or VIOS partition using the tprof (-a, -b, -B, -E option) command or pmctl (-a, -E option) command.
- In an IBM i partition when the PEX *TRACE profile (TPROF) collections or PEX *PROFILE collections are active.
- In a Linux partition using the perf command, which is available in RHEL6 and SLES11; profiling with oprofile does not cause the problem.
-SW097307: On blades using the Active Energy Manager (AEM) to run in Dynamic Power Save (DPS) mode, and with deconfigured processor
cores, a problem was fixed that caused the processor voltages to be set incorrectly, which in turn caused the system to use more power than it should have been using.
-SW108053: A problem was fixed that caused SRC B1812616 to be erroneously logged when the service processor performed a reset/reloadoperation after the blade had been booted in safe mode.
-SW103611: On blades managed by a System Director Management Console (SDMC), a problem was fixed that caused multiple service processor dumps to be unnecessarily taken during a concurrent firmware update.
SRC B181EF9A, which indicates that the dump space on the service processor is full, was logged as a result.
-XB085130: On blades managed by a System Director Management Console (SDMC), a problem was fixed that prevented the use of the BladeCenter
Open Fabric Manager (BOFM).
-SW111209: On blades managed by a System Director Management Console (SDMC), a problem was fixed that caused SRC BA3430001 to be erroneously
logged every time a partition with service authority was booted.
-XB063762: On systems with an iSCSI network, when booting a logical partition using that iSCSI network, a problem was fixed that caused
the iSCSI gateway parameter displayed on the screen to be incorrect.
It did not impact iSCSI boot functionality.
-SW110500: On blades that are partitioned, problem was fixed that
caused a partition to hang at progress code C200xxxx when booting.
-SW110748: On PS703 and PS704 blades in a BladeCenter S chassis with a 2/4 port high-speed daughter card feature code (F/C) 8291
installed, a problem was fixed that caused SRC BA180020 to be erroneously logged.
Version 7.3.4 Supplemental service pack 01AA730_066_035 - 12/09/11
System firmware changes that affect certain systems
-SW112982: HIPER/Pervasive on systems with a Virtual Input/Output
(VIO) client running AIX: A problem was fixed that caused the
system to crash with SRC B700F103.
Version 7.3.4 01AA730_059_035 - 11/04/11
System firmware changes that affect all systems
-SW106588: The firmware was enhanced to log SRC B1812626 as
informational, instead of unrecoverable, when the blade is at
standby.
System firmware changes that affect certain systems
-SW103582: On PS700, PS701 and PS702 blades, a problem was fixed that prevented a high-speed daughter card (HSDC) from being configured by the operating system.
-SW107458: On PS702 and PS704 double-wide blades, a problem was fixed that caused the power cap minimum and maximum values to be erroneously set to the same value.
Version 7.3.3 01AA730_052_035 - 09/28/11
New Features and Functions
Support for 16 GB memory DIMMs, feature code EM34, on PS703 and PS704 systems.
System firmware changes that affect all systems
-SW073067 HIPER: On systems running VIOS, a problem was fixed that caused the system to crash with SRC B700F103.
-SW100749: The firmware was enhanced to allow the blade to boot by using the previously-set minimum and maximum power capping values, or zeros, if the retrieval of the new minimum and maximum power capping values failed.
-XB046347: A problem was fixed that caused "recovery" errors to be erroneously logged by the service processor.
These recovery entries were visible in the Advanced Management Module (AMM) error log.
-SW082028: The firmware was enhanced so that a MAC address of all zeros will no longer be broadcast. Network switches to which the blade can be attached can be configured to block ports on which all-zero MAC addresses are received.
The blade attached to the blocked port on the switch will become unreachable.
-SW086941: A problem was fixed that caused SRC B18138B7 to be erroneously logged, and the service processor to terminate, when errors were continuously logged due to failing hardware.
System firmware changes that affect certain systems
-SW081762/9C48172: On systems with a F/C 8258 InfiniBand (IB) adapter installed, the firmware was enhanced to improve the performance of the adapter.
-SW077502: On POWER7 blade systems that are managed by a System Director Management Console (SDMC), as well as an Advanced Management Module (AMM), a problem was fixed that prevented service processor error log entries that had been sent to the SDMC from being sent to the AMM.
-XB064715: On PS703 and PS704 systems, a problem was fixed that caused the blade type to be incorrectly shown in the AMM menus.
-XB060878: On PS703 and PS704 systems, a problem was fixed that prevented an over-temperature condition on the second processor from being reported to the Advanced Management Module (AMM).
-SW080393: On PS703 and PS704 systems, a problem was fixed that caused the first string in a service processor error log entry to be duplicated when viewed in the Advanced Management Module (AMM) menus.
-SW081987: On PS70x systems that are not managed by a System Director Management Console (SDMC) which have a daughter card attached, a problem was fixed that caused unrecoverable SRC B1818A0F to be erroneously logged during blade discovery or after an in-band firmware installation.
-SW082825: On PS703 and PS704 systems, a problem was fixed that prevented the integrated Ethernet MAC addresses from being displayed in the hardware vital product data (VPD) on the Advanced Management Module (AMM) interface.
-SW070071: On systems running the Blade Open Fabric Manager (BOFM), a problem was fixed that caused SRC BA340001 or BA340020 to be erroneously logged.
-SW069711: On PS703 and PS704 systems in which a high-speed daughter card (HSDC) is installed, a problem was fixed that prevented the card from being configured.
-SW093463: On systems with processors that don't have memory associated with them, a problem was fixed that was degrading
system performance.
-SW081796: On systems running Active Memory Sharing (AMS), a problem was fixed that caused the system to crash during the creation of a logical partition (LPAR).
Version 7.3.1 01AA730_039_035 - 07/18/11
System firmware changes that affect all systems
- The firmware was enhanced so that a MAC address of all zeros will no longer be broadcast. Network switches to which the blade can be attached can be configured to block ports on which all-zero MAC addresses are received. The blade attached to the blocked port on the switch will become unreachable.
Version 7.3.0.1 01AA730_035_035 - N/A
There are no fixes specific to POWER7 blades in this level.
Version 7.3.0 01AA730_031_031 - 05/20/2011
New Features and Functions
- Support for IBM i live partition hibernation
- Support for server platform system dumps (SYSDUMP files) larger than 4GB
- Support for power savings settings for certain partitions and the system processor pool
- Support for remote restart of partitions.
Version 7.1.6 01AA710_114_043 - 03/25/2011
System firmware changes that affect certain systems
- SW008198: On PS700 blades (8406-70Y), a problem was fixed that caused an IPL to hang.
- SW058373: on PS700 blades (8406-70Y), a problem was fixed that caused the power requirements displayed on the advanced management module (AMM) to be too high. When this happens on multiple blades servers, it can cause the BladeCenter to erroneously restrict the number of blade servers that can be installed.
Version 7.1.5 01AA710_099_043 - 11/11/2010
System firmware changes that affect all systems
- SW032203: The firmware was enhanced to give the user the opportunity to change the boot flow (invoke the SMS menus, for example) during a forced reboot.
A forced reboot occurs when the operating system's operational parameters are not consistent with the current parameters.
The firmware forces a reboot so that the new parameters will be applied during the next boot.
Version 7.1.4 01AA710_097_043 - 10/01/2010
System firmware changes that affect all systems
- SW031078 HIPER: This fix corrects an issue that has the potential to corrupt information stored in the POWER7 core's translation cache
and may cause undetected data errors.
This issue was discovered during internal IBM testing, and while it has not been reported on any customer system, IBM strongly recommends that this fix be applied to all POWER7 systems.
- XB032341: A problem was fixed that prevented the eth0 port from working properly if it was configured for IPv6 addressing.
- SW013447: A problem was fixed that prevented bootable virtual fibre channel disks from being displayed on the system management services (SMS) menus.
System firmware changes that affect certain systems
- SW015952: On double-wide blades, a problem was fixed that caused the MAC address of the expansion planar to be displayed incorrectly on the advanced management module (AMM) menus.
Version 7.1.3 01AA710_088_043 - 08/11/2010
- SW017783/PMH 59484,004,000 (FSP) HIPER: On systems in dynamic power save mode using the Active Energy Manager plug-in with Systems Director, a problem was fixed that caused SRC B1812616, then a hardware checkstop (SRC B113E504), to be logged.
Version 7.1.2 01AA710_083_043 - 06/04/2010
- Firmware Release for Power7 Blades: 8406-70Y, 8406-71Y Blade Centers PS700, PS701
4.0 Web information
Please refer to the Bull documentation ref. 86Y175FE01/86Y180FE01 for the current versions of BL1-700 /BL2-700 product documentation and any late breaking product news. Supported Blade Center and/or Blade code updates (in addition to this Firmware) can also be downloaded from the Bull web site.
5.0 Disclaimer
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