Platform Firmware Updates for SPARC Systems
Platform firmware updates for selected SPARC systems are available in the Oracle Solaris IPS support repository in addition to .zip
downloads from My Oracle Support (http://support.oracle.com
). If you have your solaris
package publisher configured to retrieve packages from the Oracle Solaris support repository, you can use the pkg install
command instead of downloading and unpacking the .zip
file.
Installing the IPS package does not automatically update the firmware of the server because that update requires manual steps by the system administrator and requires power cycling the server. Installing or updating the firmware update package delivers the files to /var/firmware/system/
ServerType. To install the firmware update, follow the instructions in the included README file.
Use the following command to identify the newest available firmware update packages:
$ pkg list -n 'firmware/system/*'
Packages are named pkg:/firmware/system/
ServerType. You do not need to install older updates. You can install just the newest update, and then continue to update from there.
Use the pkg contents
and pkg info
commands to get more information about the packages for your platform.
Example 4-1 Showing Information About SPARC T7 Firmware Updates
The firmware/system/T7-4
package installs the T7-4/sysfw9-7
and T7-4/hwprogrammables1-0-7
packages:
$ pkg install -nv firmware/system/T7-4
Packages to install: 3
Estimated space available: 830.81 GB
Estimated space to be consumed: 367.54 MB
Create boot environment: No
Create backup boot environment: No
Rebuild boot archive: No
Changed packages:
solaris
firmware/system/T7-4
None -> 1.1.0.4.0,5.11:20170726T000710Z
firmware/system/T7-4/hwprogrammables1-0-7
None -> 1.0.7,5.11:20160817T161305Z
firmware/system/T7-4/sysfw9-7
None -> 9.7.6.2,5.11:20170726T000706Z
Release Notes:
Sun System Firmware component revisions included with this release:
Sun System Firmware 9.7.6.b 2017/07/10 15:33
--------------------------------------------
ILOM 3.2.10.1.b Mon Jul 10 16:22:42 PDT 2017
Hostconfig 1.8.6 2017/06/07 09:34
POST 5.5.6 2017/06/07 09:22
FWP 1.3.6 2017/06/07 09:15
Hypervisor 1.17.6.a 2017/06/14 10:14
OpenBoot 4.40.6 2017/06/07 09:00
GM 1.8.6 2017/06/07 09:40
Checksum of Sun_System_Firmware-9_7_6_b-SPARC_T7-4.pkg : 2715457817
(generated by the /usr/bin/cksum command)
The pkg info
command shows that the firmware/system/T7-4/sysfw9-7
package provides Patch p26407491_976b:
$ pkg info -r firmware/system/T7-4/sysfw9-7
Name: firmware/system/T7-4/sysfw9-7
Summary: T7-4 firmware
Description: T7-4 firmware: MOS Patch p26407491_976b
State: Not installed
Publisher: solaris
Version: 9.7.6.2 (9.7.6.b)
Build Release: 5.11
Branch: None
Packaging Date: July 26, 2017 12:07:06 AM
Size: 33.62 MB
FMRI: pkg://solaris/firmware/system/T7-4/sysfw9-7@9.7.6.2,5.11:20170726T000706Z
Follow the instructions in /var/firmware/system/T7-4/sysfw9-7/p26407491_976b/README.html
to install the firmware update.
After you have installed the pkg:/firmware/system/
ServerType package for your platform, you can use the pkg update
command to download newer firmware updates. Use the pkg update
command with no FMRI to download the most current firmware update package and also install the most current SRU.
For more information about firmware updates, see Oracle ILOM Administrator’s Guide for Configuration and Maintenance Firmware Release 3.2.x or your SPARC server administration guide.