IB4X-00 (ib) B.11.31.1008 HP Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand Driver Release Notes

This document provides information about the B.11.31.1008 (WEB1008) of the HP IB4X-00 driver
for InfiniBand.
IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand overview
This document details an enhancement and a defect fix made to the IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand
on HP-UX 11i v3 for the B.11.31.1008 release.
New and changed features in this release
New features
The following feature is new with the B.11.31.1008 version of the IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand:
• There are no new features with this release.
Changed features
The following feature has been changed with the B.11.31.1008 version of the IB4X-00 Driver for
InfiniBand:
• There are no changed features with this release.
Known problems fixed in this version
Table 1 lists the issues that have been fixed in the IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand HP-UX 11i v3
August 2010 (WEB1008) release. To view the entire details of each issue fix, refer to the HP IT
Resource Center at: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/home.do
Table 1 HP-UX August 2010 (WEB1008) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
The IB4X-00 driver is enhanced to support the InfiniBand QDR Mezzanine card 512519–B21
on HP Integrity blade servers.
QXCR1001043163
The nettl message logs as an ERROR, when the processing time of an event exceeds the allowed
time; therefore, it needs to be changed to WARNING.
QXCR1001031504
Table 2 HP-UX March 2010 (AR1003) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
Opening device file </dev/ib_subsys> resulted in a system panic. This occurred regardless of
whether or not the IB adapter was installed. This problem has now been fixed.
QXCR1000968186
Table 3 HP-UX September 2009 (WR0909) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
The DART81 BA929AA 11iv3 VSE OE software with InfiniBand adapter 448397-B21 failed to
boot at the ESWL_IGNITEUX stage, due to timeout at iux_monitor_reboot. The driver code
has been modified to resolve this issue.
QXCR1000940168
The new ituil command option, x, has been provided to display the link speed of an InfiniBand
interface.
QXCR1000946862
In the cluster environment, where HP-UX and Linux nodes are connected to the switch,
whenever the HP-UX node reboots, there is an LID change at the HP-UX node, which is
non-compliant with InfiniBand subnet manager protocol.
QXCR1000938720
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