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The latest version of the XCP firmware for SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers is now available on the Sun Download Center.

XCP 1071 contains fixes for the following Change Requests:

• 6685379 XSCF changed from XCP1050 so that console logs out from Solaris
• 6661840 Description of setdscp/showdscp is unclear
• 6667626 adduser man page should change the maximum user name length to 31 characters
• 6654373 Man page should designate when sendbreak won't work
• 6668614 Undocumented platform power cycle is required before SPARC64-VII can be added.
• 6685374 Power-on failed after XCP was updated to XCP1070 and Jupiter CPU was installed
• 6681287 DBS got an error(QA-DC-0973)
• 6655686 XCP updates needed to support new FF I2C fan controller chip
• 6706348 show_scf_trace should report information about begin and end date/time of each region and trace file
• 6660264 There needs to be two types of XSCFU serial I/F ereport.
• 6571840 panel_dongle status needs to be logged
• 6664046 snapshot should collect 'getflashimage -l'
• 6666291 Snapshot needs to collect the SunMC logs for trouble shooting.
• 6677063 RFE: Add "fmstat -a -m emailprv" to snapshot
• 6545482 XSCF archiving generates a huge amount of data
• 6667088 check xscf#0-if's IP and xscf#1-if 's ip are on same subnet.
• 6683763 missing DB files results in SCF unbootable.
• 6615720 Customers are requesting ability to restore a system to factory default state
• 6566540 Executing shownvram w/ /MBU_B/FPGA" on FF system shows OBP instead of FPGA.
• 6630959 BUI changes for user name restricted to less than 32 characters
• 6677958 FMA-'showlogs error' discrepancy reg degraded component
• 6645828 "Could not write FRU-ID status" is detected
• 6546593 WANboot should not reflect packets
• 6561957 OBP bge ethernet driver needs performance improvement when loading a big file (wanboot 108 MB)
• 6634974 Incorrect Error reported on nvramrc CRC Error
• 6634980 Possible Data corruption when using NVRAMRC kill or yank
• 6675519 Problem with LSB Degradation
• 6684123 On OPL OBP can cause OBP to Display incorrect information

Detailed product notes are available for the M4000/M5000 and M8000/M9000.

This firmware update is recommended for all customers.