HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

Workstation- and Server-Specific Information
ATI FireGL
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ServiceGuard Support It is not possible to use these cards in a ServiceGuard
environment on HP Integrity servers.
Multi-initiator Setups It is not possible to use these cards for multi-initiator
setup on HP Integrity servers.
The interrupt migration provides the capability to move individual interrupts allowing
the balancing of the systems interrupt load, thereby improving performance.
The OLAR feature enables the addition and/or replacement of the SCSI cards, A6828A
and A6829A, without shutting down your system. For more information, see “On-line
Addition and Replacement (OLAR) of I/O Adapters” on page 45
Compatibility
There are no compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no performance issues.
Documentation
The manpage for scsictl (1M) has been updated to reflect the new -o option.
Obsolescence
With the delivery of HP-UX 11i v2, support for the SCSI HVD card, A5159A, is obsoleted
for Itanium-based systems.
ATI FireGL
The ATI FireGL X1 and ATI FireGL Z1 are advanced graphics cards providing support
for the X server (XFree86 v4.2 [/usr/bin/X11/Xf86]) and OpenGL API (v1.1+).
Summary of Change
The ATI FireGL X1 (A9653A) and ATI FireGL Z1 (A9654A) graphics cards provide
binary and source compatibility with the current ATI Fire GL4 card and provide
significant performance increase.
The drivers that are shipped with the products are as follows:
Kernel driver -
/opt/graphics/common/kernel/drmfglrx/hpux64/drmfglrx
32-bit OpenGL driver -
/opt/graphics/OpenGL/lib/hpux32/libddfglrx.so.2
64-bit OpenGL driver -
/opt/graphics/OpenGL/lib/hpux64/libddfglrx.so.2