Release Notes

Fixes

Topics:

• Servers with the AMD Rome processor display a CCP initialization failure message in dmesg

• PowerEdge servers with the AMD Rome processor fail to detect an NVMe drive after multiple hot plugs

• Operating system enters the dracut shell during boot

• System crashes when rebooted with SR-IOV-enabled QLogic cards

• After system reboot, Disk data format (DDF) devices are not listed in /proc/mdstat

• Updating NVMe firmware using the nvme-cli utility displays an error in dmesg

• Fatal error BDF 02:00.0 is detected with BCM574xx NICs

• NVMe devices are not detected after hot-plugging

• Linux operating system fails to detect the Intel x710 card

• Dmidecode displays OUT OF SPEC in Slot Type and Slot Length of SMBIOS system slots

• Custom partitioning fails with FC LUN

• When booting the system from iSCSI with Mellanox CX-4 and CX-5 adapters, the system reports csum failure message

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel panic is observed due to fatal hardware error

Servers with the AMD Rome processor display a CCP

initialization failure message in dmesg

Description:

Servers with AMD Rome processor display the following messages in dmesg:

CCP initialization failed

The CCP message indicates that the CCP device is not available.

Applies to: Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 8.0, Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 8.1

Solution: The issue is resolved in Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 8.2.

Systems

affected:

PowerEdge R6515, PowerEdge R6525, PowerEdge R7515, PowerEdge R7525, and PowerEdge C6525

Tracking number: 144920

PowerEdge servers with the AMD Rome processor fail

to detect an NVMe drive after multiple hot plugs

Description:

The PowerEdge servers with the AMD Rome processor fail to detect an NVMe drive after multiple hot

plugs.

Applies to:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Cause: Issue in pciehp driver.

Workaround:

NOTE: The output of each command varies based on your system configuration.

Follow the steps:

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