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                   Intel(R) Server Platforms S7000FC4UR BMC
                              RELEASE NOTES
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INTEL Enterprise Platform & Services Marketing
Intel Corporation
2111 N.E. 25th Avenue, Hillsboro, OR 97124 USA
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DATE:       Jun 29, 2010
TO          Intel(R) server platform S7000FC4UR customers
SUBJECT:    BMC(R) 0.23 Release Notes
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                            LEGAL INFORMATION
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                            ABOUT THIS RELEASE
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REVISION INFORMATION RETURNED BY GET DEVICE ID COMMAND:

Operational code:       v00.23
Boot code:              v00.46
PIA data:               v00.06   (Hex value == 06h)
Manufacturer ID:        0x000157 (Intel)
Product ID:             0x0107   (S7000FC4UR)

Checksum Information:
OpFW version 0.23, built on: FW-2C372036C070, region: 0x00020000 -> 0x001307e6,
checksum: 0x76a2

Boot version 0.46, built on: FW-2C372036C070, region: 0x00000000 -> 0x00005616,
checksum: 0xe95c

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                   SYSTEM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS/REVISIONS
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- S7000FC4UR HW
- PLD code v102 or later

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                   SYSTEM SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS/REVISIONS
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- BIOS: Use with the R0031 or above BIOS.

- FRU/SDR package: Use with FRUSDR package v0.18 or above.


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                       IMPORTANT INSTALLATION NOTES
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- The following files are necessary to update the firmware:
  upfw.nsh      - Script file used in an EFI environment to update the
                  firmware (PIA and Operational code)
  FCBMC23.hex   - BMC 0.23 firmware hex file for the S7000FC4UR platform
  FWPIAUpd.efi  - EFI utility to program firmware hex file into the flash
                  device
  IPMI.efi      - EFI IPMI driver required by the FWPIAUpd.efi utility

Executing the fwpiaupd utility with your own command switches is unsupported
and may leave your baseboard in a non-operational state! Please use the
provided batch file to update the firmware.

Executing the update script must be done from an EFI environment.  Do not
reset or remove power from the system during this time, as it may cause
the BMC FW to be corrupted.

The ESB2 NIC SEEPROM must contain a valid image in order to activate the
BMC, and an active BMC is required for the installation procedure described
below.  Early fab 1 baseboards were built and distributed with blank ESB2
NIC SEEPROMs and BMC flash devices.  If the BMC update procedure fails, it
may be due to blank or invalid images in the ESB2 NIC SEEPROM or BMC flash
devices.  Please see the FCBMC06 package for instructions on how to update
the SEEPROM and put an initial image into the BMC flash.

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                       BMC FW INSTALLATION PROCEDURE
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Please follow the steps below to update the BMC FW using the provided update
script and firmware update utility.

   1) Unzip the release package, and copy the contents onto a storage media,
      such as a USB memory device.

   2) Boot the system to EFI and change directories to the release directory.

   3) Run the upfw.nsh update script.

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                           CHANGES SINCE PREVIOUS VERSION
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BMC23:
- Fixed -703 baseboard BMC failed to boot  

BMC FW22:
- Fixed random uncorrectable ECC errors during the POST 

BMC FW21:
- BMC checksum mismatches 
- BaseBoard-Temp sensor randomly drops out 
- Add more averaging and debouncing offsets

BMC FW20:
- C3 FLASH MIGRATION TO M28W FLASH 
- Low Voltage Dimm support 

BMC FW19:
-50X memory board will replace AT24C02 FRU EEPROM with PCA9500 device which has integrated 
 2Kbit EEPROM for FRU and GPIO's

BMC FW18:
- Fixed reliability problem of ESB2 BMC on Windows* server 2003
- Fixed ESB2 BMC boot failure issue
- Corrected the issue that NMI button can not trigger Windows* server 2003 to 
  generate memory dump file

BMC FW17:
- Corrected erroneous SEL Logs of power units redundancy during AC Power Cycling
- Corrected false events of power supply temperature  



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