SOFTPAQ NUMBER:  SP30411
PART NUMBER:  364864-404
FILE NAME:  SP30411.EXE
TITLE:  Systems ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade Diskette for HP ProLiant
        DL585 G1 Servers.

VERSION:  4.10A

LANGUAGE:  English

CATEGORY:  ROMPaqs

DIVISIONS:  Systems

PRODUCTS AFFECTED:  HP ProLiant DL585 G1

OPERATING SYSTEM:  ALL

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:  N/A

PREREQUISITE:  N/A

EFFECTIVE DATE:  May 16, 2005

ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED:  Yes

SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 2.X

SUPERSEDES:  SP30315

DESCRIPTION:   This release provides updated system ROM images
               for the latest maintenance releases of HP
               DL585 G1 Servers.


New Features -


        ProLiant DL585 G1 ROM A01 (04/30/2005)
        ============================================

                1) Added support for dual-core AMD Opteron processors.

		2) Added enhanced Virtual Serial Port support. This feature was 
		   removed from the 04/22/2005 version of the System ROM due to 
		   a possible issue with corrupted PCI Configuration Cycles. 
		   Corruption of PCI Configuration Cycles could result in 
		   incorrect system operation such as a kernel panic, blue screen, 
		   or exception. This ROM addresses all potential issues with 
		   enhanced Virtual Serial Port. The enhanced Virtual Serial Port 
		   feature allows redirecting serial console through iLO at 
		   standard COM port addresses. For all systems configured to use 
		   standard Virtual Serial Port with the 04/22/2005 System ROM, 
		   this feature will continue to operate in the same manner until 
		   enhanced Virtual Serial Port is configured in RBSU. To enable 
		   enhanced Virtual Serial Port support, configure the Virtual 
		   Serial Port in RBSU to a standard COM port assignment. 
		   For Linux users, the OS should then be configured to direct 
		   serial console to that COM port. For Windows users using 
		   Emergency Management Services (EMS), EMS should be configured
		   in RBSU to that COM port assignment. If it is desired to 
		   redirect BIOS Serial Console through iLO, configure BIOS 
		   Serial Console in RBSU to the same COM port setting as the 
		   Virtual Serial Port. 

		3) Added an RBSU Option to enable/disable Page Directory Cache 
		   (PDC). By default PDC is enabled. This option allows working 
		   around an issue in some Linux kernel versions running in 
		   64-bit mode. PDC should ONLY be disabled if running in 64-bit
		   mode with RHEL4, RHEL4 Update 1, or SLES9 with errata kernel 
		   earlier than 2.6.5-7.151 or any kernel.org based kernel 
		   earlier than 2.6.12. Disabling PDC with these versions
		   of Linux prevents a possible but rare possiblity of a Machine 
		   Check Error. Newer versions of the Linux kernel will not 
		   require that PDC be disabled.	

		4) Allow HP Systems Insight Manager to display DIMM and memory 
		   board status information.



Problems Fixed -


        ProLiant DL585 G1 ROM A01 (04/30/2005)
        ============================================

                1) Re-enabled a processor feature known as Page Directory Cache 
		   (PDC). This feature was disabled with the 03/09/2005 version 
		   of the System ROM to work-around an AMD Opteron processor 
		   issue that may on rare occasion result in a segmentation fault, 
		   kernel panic, or network transfer error. This issue has now 
		   been root-caused and disabling another processor feature known 
		   as Flush Filter instead of PDC effectively eliminates this
		   possible issue. Although disabling PDC resulted in only minimal 
		   performance degradation, disabling Flush Filter results in 
		   even less performance degradation. 

		2) Resolved issues with communicating invalid DIMM configurations. 
		   In certain instances, the wrong DIMM LEDs would be illuminated 
		   when indicating invalid configurations.

		3) Allowed multiple PXE NICs to be configured in the Standard Boot 
		   Order (IPL) menu in RBSU.  




HOW TO USE:

1.  Obtain a formatted 1.44 MB diskette.

2.  Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory.
The file that is downloaded is SP30411.EXE.

3.  From that drive and directory, execute the SoftPaq file:
SP30411 [ENTER]
You will be prompted to place the formatted 1.44 MB diskette into a diskette drive to
create diskette.

4.  After the diskette is created, you may delete the downloaded file
SP30411.EXE if you wish.

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