IB4X-00 (ib) B.11.31.1203 HP Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand Driver Release Notes

This document provides information about the B.11.31.1203 (AR1203) release of the HP IB4X-00
driver for InfiniBand.
IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand overview
This document details features introduced with this release, and defects fixes for, the IB4X-00 Driver
for InfiniBand on HP-UX 11i v3 for the B.11.31.1203 release.
New and changed features in this release
New features
The following feature is new with the B.11.31.1203 version of the IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand:
• There are no new features with this release of the IB4X-00 driver for InfiniBand.
Changed features
The following feature has been changed with the B.11.31.1203 version of the IB4X-00 Driver for
InfiniBand:
• There are no changed features with this release.
Known problems fixed in this version
The following issues have been fixed in the IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand HP-UX 11i v3 March
2012 (AR1203) 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 March 2012 (AR1203) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
Infiniband release B.11.31.1103 excludes PCI-X adapter from description. This issue has been
fixed.
QXCR1001132985
Netfmt command was giving core dumps in "nice" while printing of infiniband data. This issue
was due to the misalignment in the code and it is fixed now.
QXCR1001136764
IB HBA firmware update needed to prevent SDR/DDR negotiation problems . This has been fixed
by updating the new card firmware.
QXCR1001149978
Itutil command displays incorrect speed for QDR card.QXCR10011447829
The ib_t driver module failed to unload due to internal CRA library error.QXCR1001149999
Persistent ERROR messages in syslog regarding IB QDR card AT083A due to incorrect logic in
the code.
QXCR100112789
Table 2 HP-UX September 2011 (AR1109) Fixes
DescriptionDefect ID
This message incorrectly appeared in dmesg when the card already has the higher version of
the firmware:ib_t: Firmware version on the HCA is old. Please use 'itutil'
to upgrade it to the 2.5.0 version of the fw. This is fixed now.
QXCR1001105551
The command
itutil -d switch_fw interface_name spigot_id
QXCR1001105552
to display the firmware version of the switch displayed invalid values. This defect is fixed now.
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