HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• New: Kernel Access Infrastructure: HP-UX Virtual Memory provides a new set of APIs to map
user virtual addresses into the kernel. Useful as a copy avoidance solution where user data
can be accessed and modified by kernel contexts, avoiding the copying in and out of data
when system calls are invoked.
• New: libc Enhancement: Contains a new API called memsetU16(3C), which can be used
for memory operations to set area in memory to contain 2-byte word. Delivered as an optional
product in all OEs.
• New: patch_active_text: Allows mprotect() write access to the text of a running process
such that the active text can be modified.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”
• Korean iconv Codeset Converters: The iconv converters for converting data between Korean
EUC encoding and Unicode are updated to align the character mappings to match that of
Microsoft Windows and other UNIX platforms.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”
• There are no changes in March 2008 for the products or features that are normally documented
in this chapter.
What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2007 release
The following summaries provide a general picture of how the September 2007 release of HP-UX
11i v3 differs from the initial (February 2007) release of HP-UX 11i v3. For further information,
see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2007 Release Notes, available
in its most current version at
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs-11iv3
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 2: “Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 3”
• Software Pack (SPK): No SPK content delivered on media in the HP-UX 11i v3 September
2007 release. However, a couple of core enhancements, AccessControl and AtomicAPI, have
been delivered on the HP Software Depot at http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific Information”
• New: Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 (HWEnable11i): Provides patches
required for new systems and the latest Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, and for add-on hardware
supported on HP-UX 11i v3, including I/O adapters and devices.
• New: HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: Updated to version A.03.95.510.42.07 to
incorporate defect fixes.
• Mass Storage Stack: New options to manage multi-pathed disks and disk arrays.
• I/O Subsystem: More networking & I/O drivers are DLKM-enabled, which means they can
be dynamically loaded and unloaded from the HP-UX kernel without manually rebuilding the
kernel or rebooting the system.
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
Required Networking Drivers◦
– 10GigEthr-00: Updated to support UDP traffic over the destination port-based
multi-queues and to display vital product data (vpd) by using the nwmgr command.
DLKM-enabled.
– GigEther-00: DLKM-enabled and defect fixes.
– GigEther01: DLKM-enabled.
– IEther-00 and Gigabit Ethernet: AD337A and AD338A PCI-Express is now
supported; iether is DLKM-enabled.
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