Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle

The Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle (HWEnable11i) provides the patches required for new systems and for add-on hardware supported on HP-UX 11i v2, including I/O adapters and devices.

In addition to delivery on the HP-UX 11i v2 OE media, the HWEnable11i bundle is also available on the IT Resource Center (ITRC) Web site at http://itrc.hp.com.

For help in finding firmware requirements, see “Finding Firmware Information”.

Summary of Change

The HWEnable11i bundle includes the following updates:

Qualified diagnostics with new DAT and LTO tape drives.
Updated diagnostics for following new I/O cards:
- AB287A: PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet card
- AB290A: PCI-X 2-Port U320 SCSI / 2-Port 1000Base-T Adapter
- AB465A: PCI-X Multifunction 2-Port 2Gb FC / 2-Port 1000Base-T Adapter
- AB545A: PCI-X 4-Port 1000Base-T Adapter

Also note that the following I/O driver bundles have been updated:

10GigEthr-00 (ixgbe driver) B.11.23.04: Added support for AB287A. (See “10GigEthr-00 (10 Gigabit Ethernet)”.)
GigEther-01 (igelan driver) B.11.23.0505: Improved support for AB465A. (See “GigEther-00, GigEther-01, and IEther-00 (Gigabit Ethernet)”.)
IEther-00 (iether driver) B.11. 23.0505: Added support for AB290A, AB545A. (See “GigEther-00, GigEther-01, and IEther-00 (Gigabit Ethernet)”.)
scsiU320-00 (mpt driver) B.11.23.02: Improved support for AB290A. (See “scsiU320-00”.)
USB-00 (usb drivers) C.01.00.38: Improved USB drivers for Itanium ®-based servers. (See “USB-00 (Universal Serial Bus)”.)

Impact

With each release of the HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environment (OE) media, HP updates this bundle with required patches for new hardware.

Compatibility

If you choose to load only the May 2005 version of this patch bundle, without doing a complete update to the May 2005 version of HP-UX 11i v2, you must first load the September 2004 version of HP-UX 11i v2.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For information about the HWEnable11i bundle, refer to the Hardware Enablement Bundle README file.

For further information, refer to the following Web sites:

http://itrc.hp.com
http://software.hp.com

Also refer to the latest editions of the following documents, available at http://docs.hp.com:

HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide
Read Before Installing or Updating to HP-UX 11i v2

Obsolescence

Not applicable.