Emulex Corporation



                          Light Pulse Family Host Adapter
                            Universal Boot Release Notes


                                      5.13x14


                                 Oct 13th, 2016



I. Introduction


This Universal Boot version contains:

(1) x86 BootBIOS  version 2.20a6 
(2) OpenBoot      version 3.10a8 
(3) EFIBoot       version 4.20x13 (Microsoft signed)

For detailed information about x86 BootBIOS, please refer to section II below,
for OpenBoot, section III, and for EFIBoot, section IV.  This Universal Boot can 
boot on either Intel x86 Platform, Non-Intel Fcode, or EFI environment.  In other 
words, the platform is transparent and the user should not be concerned with any 
differences with regard to x86 BootBIOS, OpenBoot, or EFIBoot.

Universal Boot is a complete image, whenever it is enabled by any Emulex OS 
utility, the whole image (x86 BootBIOS, OpenBoot and EFIBoot) is enabled.  This 
is also true for disable.


Files included in this release:

\513x13_s.txt        this file you are reading
\TL513x13.PRG      LP10000-S    Universal Boot
\BL513x13.PRG      LP11000-S    Universal Boot
\ZL513x13.PRG      LPe11000-S   Universal Boot
\ZL513x13.PRG      LPe11020-S   Universal Boot
\ZL513x13.PRG      LPem11002-S  Universal Boot
\UL513x13.PRG      LPe12000-S   Universal Boot
\UL513x13.PRG      LPem12002-S  Universal Boot
\elxcli420x13efi  EFI 4.20x13 Driver


Universal Boot Load Procedure

The Light Pulse Universal Boot is distributed as a .PRG file.  This file may be 
downloaded to the Adapter using OCM utility.


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II. x86 BootBIOS

The current BootBIOS provides x86 boot capability through the use of INT13 system 
BIOS calls.  The BootBIOS supports:

(1)  Multi-topology: Fabric Point to Point, FC-AL, Private loop and Public loop 
(2)  Multi-initiators: Up to 8 adapters in a system
(3)  Multi-LUNs: Up to 256 LUNs 
(4)  Multi-boot: it complies with the BIOS Boot Specification (BBS).
(5)  EDD (Enhanced Disk Drive Services): it supports both EDD 3.0 and EDD 2.1 
     depending on the selection made in the BIOS Utility. 
(6)  Boot fail over feature: This was implemented in BootBIOS version 1.20.  There 
     are eight boot entries that can be configured.  If the first boot entry fails 
     for any reason, it is still able to boot from the second configured boot 
     entry and so on.


1. History:

No new Changes


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III. OpenBoot


This version of OpenBoot supports FC-AL, Private loop, Public loop, and 
Fabric Point to Point.  Also, it supports multi-initiators and multi-LUNs 
(0 through 4055).


1. History:

No new Changes

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IV. EFIBoot

Changes in 4.20x13

Bug 196203 - Oracle Bug 24662443 - 2016Maint Pallene-e code "discard changes" in UEFI menu does not work correctly