QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card Multiboot Image - IBM BladeCenter JS21, JS22

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New IBM xSeries firmware and device driver file naming convention

Version 1.39

Package contains the following code levels:

• BIOS Code Update 1.24
• Fcode 1.25
• EFI 1.08
• Firmware Update 4.00.27

Rev 1.38

Note: This Multiboot image version 1.38 consists of the adapter RISC firmware version 4.0.0.24, the BIOS version 1.24, and the FCODE version 1.25.

• This is a maintence release of the Multiboot flash image to version 1.38.
• Adds support for new BladeCenter options:
  • Qlogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFv) for IBM BladeCenter (IBM Option P/N 41Y8527)
  • Qlogic Ethernet and 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter (IBM Option P/N 39Y9306)
  • Fixed issue on JS20/JS21 where boot failover may fail or take a long time to complete
  • Fixed issue with the blade installation problems with Netware 6.5 when using the QLogic adapter as the boot device
  • Updated firmware to 4.0.0.24

Rev 1.29

• Changed buffer request size to 2056 bytes for 'Report Luns' command.
• Added check for optional boot mode flag to allow code to configure 1 drive/port when enabled. Bit 6 of host parameters in NVRAM is set to enable this mode.
• Fixed issue when Spinup-Delay and link is down.
• Added code to not display Data Rate option in CTRL-Q for QME2462.
• Added support for interrupt polling. This option is controlled by bit 7 of NVRAM Host Parameters and by new Advanced Settings option in CTRL-Q
• Changed format of PnP string to display when Opt Boot Mode enabled in NVRAM.
• Fix encode-unit to encode the lun target integer pair. Used in qla-mode.
• Swap order of boot-wwn-hi & boot-wwn-lo in NVRAM (hi is now first)
• Always prompt for boot-target-id in set-boot-wwn.
• Remove periods in display-wwn & display-inquiry,LUN. Now show-children looks the same as it use to.
• Add 2-bit fcode-host field to fcode-parameter word (wd offset x56) in NVRAM. Value can be 00-SPARC, 01-IBM, or 10-MAC. This will effect the version string. The 01-IBM value should not be used. The IBM version is still a separte binary
• Change Initiator test in login-device also. Test TARG-BIT of Service params.
• Change show-login-devices & show-fabric-devices to skip display-luns if display-port-db fails. Check target bit done in get-port-db. Now FL-port works
• Remove all #ifdef MAC instrustions. Make SUN version the SPARC/MAC version
• Fix problem found @SUN w/6920, Change Initiator test in get-portname-db.
• Add support for Apple MAC Fcode, using #ifdefs. Make it 32-bit compatable.
• Add disk-test (read-write-read-compare) selected target with sel-dev & sel-lun Moved read-block-ext, timed-spin, r/w-blocks from sd node 1to parent qlc node.
• Modify beacon word to flash top and bottom LEDs only
• Change node name to QLGC,qla for qla-mode on Sun platforms.
• Added boot ID NVRAM modification to the set-boot-wwn method.
• Added support for qla-mode on Sun platforms. Added NVRAM modification words for Fcode parameter byte (fcode-mode) and Boot Port Name/Boot LUN. Including: set-fc-mode, set-boot-wwn, fc-mode@, boot-wwn@, boot-wwn!, and boot-lun@.
• Add creation of qla-mode property if the fcode-mode bit is set.
• Modify set-address and device-present? to handle #address-cells =2 in qla-mode
• Modify set-address & prepare-command to correctly handle 64-bit LUNs.
• Cleaned up code. Got rid of unneeded calls to get-id. Made all constants CAPs.
• Added login-devices word to login to all fabric devices and return #ports.
• Added display-port-db word used by list-wwns and show-children (fabric & loop)
• Modified show-fabric-devices to call login-devices and the call get-port-db

Rev 1.02

• Initial release