HP has released a new firmware version 4.1.450.7 of its Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Controller which is used in HP G7 and G8 Blades.
This is a standalone image so not part of the HP Service Pack for ProLiant 2012.08.0 release which is unfortunate.
The new firmware release notes state the following:
Added support for the following operating systems:
- RHEL 6.3
Resolved Issues from Firmware Version 4.1.402.20:
- BladeEngine Firmware
- SR IOV: Unable to ping IPV6 from DUT VF to Peer VF
- Running ethtool with BE3 takes longer than expected after cable pull
- FAT_CFG_SNAPSHOT command timed out
- Out of Order CQEs
- Data integrity Issue noted during short duration cable pulls
- W2K8 graceful shutdown failed under B120i with NC552
- BL460c Gen8 with 554FLB Unable to PXE boot
- 1Gb LOM ports in Windows do not come back up when switch is power cycled
- RSCN is not generated by switch when a driver restarts 10. 7 second delay in _CARD_ATTRIBUTES command
- BE3 read sfp ioctl returns bad data on twinax cables that BE2 returns good data with
- 554FLR FCoE Path Multipath Recovery Fail SLES11 sp1 x64
- Out of order Abort completion and IO completion CQE
- Received CQE_EXT_INVALID_RPI in abort completion of ELS command
- Correction to OCSD to prevent DMA conflicts with LPFC driver
PXE BIOS
- PXE issue on Gen 8 blades hang at gPXE prompt when set for one time PXE boot.
UEFI iSCSI
- EFI: CHAP name only accepts 6 to 10 characters
- EFI: iSCSI name is case sensitive
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