Testing at QLogic has discovered a word endianness problem when programming the flash on a PPC machine. This would cause the FLASH device to become corrupt and render the card unusable until properly programmed.
Created attachment 330241 [details] fix ppc flash programming
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in kernel-2.6.18-131.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 Please do NOT transition this bugzilla state to VERIFIED until our QE team has sent specific instructions indicating when to do so. However feel free to provide a comment indicating that this fix has been verified.
I have verified fix on IBM JS21 blade server with QMI2472 IBM eServer Blade Center 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card CFFX. Using SCLI version scli-1.7.1-23.ppc64.rpm, I was able to update flash image as well as modify hba parameters without observing any flash corruption. Linux elm3c102.beaverton.ibm.com 2.6.18-131.el5 #1 SMP Fri Feb 6 21:20:45 EST 2009 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux # modinfo -F version qla2xxx 8.02.00.06.05.03-k
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An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html