HP-UX 11i Version 2 September 2006 Release Notes

Hardware-Specific Information

Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2

Chapter 4

Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2

Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2 (HWEnable11i) provides patches

required for new systems and for add-on hardware supported on HP-UX 11i v2,

including I/O adapters and devices.

Summary of Change

The HWEnable11i bundle for September 2006 includes future HP-UX support for

PCI-Express I/O adapters, in addition to the latest changes for the new Dual-Core Intel

Itanium 2 processors in the following HP servers. Minimal HP-UX support requires

other Hardware Enablement (HWE) components from the September 2006 Operating

Environment Update release (OEUR) that includes diagnostics, I/O driver bundles,

along with the Ignite-UX product. HP recommends an update to the desired OE option

from the September 2006 OEUR for full HP-UX support with the latest versions of the

manageability and configuration tools.

• HP Integrity rx2620 server (2 sockets) with zx1 chipset

• HP Integrity rx3600 server (2 sockets) with zx2 chipset

• HP Integrity rx4640 server (4 sockets) with zx1 chipset

• HP Integrity rx6600 server (4 sockets) with zx2 chipset

• HP Integrity rx7640 server (8 sockets) with sx2000 chipset

• HP Integrity rx8640 server (16 sockets) with sx2000 chipset

• HP Superdome server (16 sockets) with sx2000 chipset

• HP Superdome server (32 sockets) with sx2000 chipset

• HP Superdome server (64 sockets) with sx2000 chipset

IMPORTANT For information about a known problem involving the rx7640 and rx8640 servers and

the automated management of nPartitions and virtual partitions on HP-UX 11i v2, see

the Read Before Installing or Updating HP-UX 11i v2 September 2006 at

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11i/index.html.

Impact

HP updates this bundle with required patches for new hardware. This bundle is updated

for each release of the 11i v2 OE media. In addition to delivery on the HP-UX 11i v2 OE

media, it is also available on the ITRC Web site at http://itrc.hp.com.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.