              FW Update Utility for SR460AC4 Release Notes
               Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Intel Corporation
                          All Rights Reserved
                             June 06, 2001

                             PN: A39679-005


The FW Update Utility is an EFI application program used for updating 
the Server Management (SM) Firmware (FW) for the SR460AC4 System.

RELEASE NOTES FOR FWUPDATE UTILITY VERSION 1.01

A. CHANGES SINCE PREVIOUS VERSION 1.0

   1. Added retries during a FW read to correct issue verifying HSC FW.
   2. Corrected issue with loading IPMI driver from current directory.

B. DEPENDENCIES

   1. Executes under the EFI Shell ver 0.99 or greater.
   2. Requires BIOS 69 or higher and BMC 14 or higher.
   3. Help file "fwupdate.hlp" must be located in same directory as the 
      program.

C. HOW TO USE THIS UTILITY

   1. Boot to EFI shell.
   2. Copy FWUpdate.EFI, FWUpdate.HLP, IPMI.EFI and input HEX file to a floppy 
      disk or HD.
   3. Load the IPMI driver as follows

                load ipmi.efi

   4. Command line Interface

                fwupdate [HEX File Name] [Options]

      a. To view the command-line help

                fwupdate /h   

      b. To update boot block as well as operational block of the firmware
         from the command line interface:

                fwupdate [HEX File Name] /upload /bootena

      c. To update the operational block only from the command line interface:

                fwupdate [HEX File Name] /upload

         Note: Check the FW release notes for the FW release that you are 
               updating.  It may require updating both boot code and operational 
               code.

   5. GUI Interface

                fwupdate

           or   fwupdate [HEX File Name]

      Use the arrow keys to browse through the menu and press the <Enter>
      key to select.  A brief description of the selected menu item is
      displayed in the tip-view window.  The tip-view window is displayed
      at the bottom of the screen.

      a. To upload firmware from the GUI interface, select "Update Flash",
         then select an option from its sub-menu to update boot code,
         op code, or both.
   
      b. To verify flash from the GUI interface, select "Verify Flash".
    
   6. When updating the BMC firmware, this utility saves the configuration
      data maintained by the BMC before the firmware is updated.  This data 
      is then restored after the firmware is successfully updated.

   7. Reboot the system after the update is completed successfully.

D. KNOWN ISSUES

   1. When a controller is not present, utility times out after a minute or
      more when using the "Display Version" feature of the utility.

E. PVCS TAG VERSION

      Project         Tag

   1. EFI FW Update   v07
   2. EFI Text GUI    v09

F. TOOLS USED IN BUILD

   1. Intel IA64 SDK Tools v2.0
   2. EFI v1.01.12.33
   3. EFI-AT v1.00 (with support for blkx devices)
   4. MS C/C++ Compiler for IA-64 v13.00.8781

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