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Operating Systems AIX HMC Upgrade Question Post 302739165 by acascianelli on Monday 3rd of December 2012 04:00:19 PM

12-03-2012

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Originally Posted by kah00na

Managed systems have two sides to the firmware - temporary and permanent. I don't know if there is a way to manually move the temporary over to the permanent side, but I do know that moving it is the first step of any firmware upgrade. When I upgrade my HMC, I make sure that my that the side of the firmware my managed systems were booted from (usually the temporary side) are at firmware releases supported by the HMC code I'm going to install. If it all is compatible, then I do the upgrade. If your levels are all good with each other, you should be able to upgrade.

The firmware on the system is compatible. The problem is that because I did not re-IPL the system after upgrading, the HMC is seeing that the new firmware version is deferred till a re-IPL. However, the activated firmware version is that of the version I upgraded to.

I'm trying to find out if I need to re-IPL my managed systems for them to compatible with newer versions of HMC or if simply being the current activated version is good enough.

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atmel_fwl

ATMEL_FWL(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      ATMEL_FWL(8)

NAME

       atmel_fwl - Load firmware into Atmel at76c50x wireless networking chips.

SYNOPSIS

       atmel_fwl <interface> /path/to/firmware

DESCRIPTION

       atmel_fwl loads firmware images for Atmel at76c50x series wireless networking chips into the Linux driver for same.

       Note  that this utility is not normally necessary, since the driver will automatically load the correct firmware image via the hotplug sys-
       tem. Atmel_fwl is provided for applications where use of the hotplug system may not be desirable.

       atmel_fwl should be run after the interface has been created (after card insertion, in the case of PCMCIA cards) but before it  is  brought
       up by running ifconfig.

NOTES

       Note that there are two versions of many of the firmware images, the second one with the suffix "-wpa". These are later releases from Atmel
       which support WPA privacy. They are only usable by versions of the driver greater than 0.9. Be sure not to use the "-wpa" one  unless  your
       in-kernel driver code is version 0.9 or better. Sadly, as of version 0.9, the in-kernel driver does not actually support the setting of WPA
       passphrases.

       The firmware images are usually installed in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.

       The status of the driver, including its firmware loading, is available in /proc/driver/atmel

FILES

       /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware

       /proc/driver/atmel

SEE ALSO

       iwconfig(8), ifconfig(8),

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>.

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