Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > I've only used the HP i2000 version, and even that's been a long time, > but my guess is that the firmware upgrade would be safe, and that the > appropriate HP-UX version would probably run on it. > I've discovered a small detail about updates: the firmware update seems to be safe, but the BIOS update (to the version 1.30) available from the HP website is marked as for CPU's with C2 stepping. According to my CPUID, my Itanium's are C0 stepping, therefore an update to the version dedicated for CPU's with different stepping might be fatal. Personally, I don't know what stepping is, thus cannot be sure to make any conclusions. What do you think about this? Alex. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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