Release Notes

Chapter 1: Release summary..........................................................................................................5
Version................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Release date......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Priority and recommendations..........................................................................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Compatibility............................................................................................................... 6
System configuration requirements................................................................................................................................ 6
Memory............................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Chapter 3: Fixes............................................................................................................................ 7
Servers with the AMD Rome processor display a CCP initialization failure message in dmesg....................... 7
PowerEdge servers with the AMD Rome processor fail to detect an NVMe drive after multiple hot
plugs ...................................................................................................................................................................................7
Operating system enters the dracut shell during boot...............................................................................................8
System crashes when rebooted with SR-IOV-enabled QLogic cards.................................................................... 9
After system reboot, Disk data format (DDF) devices are not listed in /proc/mdstat..................................... 9
Updating NVMe firmware using the nvme-cli utility displays an error in dmesg................................................. 9
Fatal error BDF 02:00.0 is detected with BCM574xx NICs ................................................................................... 10
NVMe devices are not detected after hot-plugging ................................................................................................ 10
Linux operating system fails to detect the Intel x710 card .....................................................................................10
Dmidecode displays OUT OF SPEC in Slot Type and Slot Length of SMBIOS system slots ..........................11
Custom partitioning fails with FC LUN..........................................................................................................................11
When booting the system from iSCSI with Mellanox CX-4 and CX-5 adapters, the system reports
csum failure message....................................................................................................................................................12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel panic is observed due to fatal hardware error............................................ 12
Chapter 4: New and enhanced in RHEL 8 release..........................................................................14
Chapter 5: Important notes......................................................................................................... 15
Chapter 6: Known issues..............................................................................................................16
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) error messages displayed in dmesg............................16
Drivers available in OEMDRV drive are not installed during the operating system installation.......................17
The Mellanox IB devices are listed under an incorrect device category on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8..... 17
The lspci utility is unable to read Vital Product Data (VPD) from QLogic QLE2692 adapter......................... 17
Driver dependency mismatch errors reported while installing out-of-box drivers on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.x.......................................................................................................................................................18
Dmesg displays Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) driver related-messages during system
boot................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
Dmesg displays TPM and nvdimm related-messages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1.....................................18
Link Up message is observed when the NVMe device slot is powered off and the device is unplugged.... 19
Mellanox InfiniBand adapters are listed in Bluetooth ............................................................................................... 19
After every reboot, the network interface name changes...................................................................................... 19
iscsiadm output displays STATIC in the iface.bootproto field when the network interface is
configured to DHCP..................................................................................................................................................... 20
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