RHEA-2016:2355 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for SLOF is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Slimline Open Firmware (SLOF) is initialization and boot firmware based on the IEEE-1275 (Open Firmware) standard, developed by engineers of the IBM Corporation. Note that this package is normally not necessary to install, because it is a dependency of the qemu-kvm package.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of SLOF are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1247956 - Boot the guest with "-boot menu=on" and press F12,didn't show the boot menu index
• BZ - 1261288 - 'Data Storage Exception [ fc36#### ]' when boot up guest with 10+ pci-ohci usb disks
• BZ - 1274588 - Can't boot up guest os from passthrough usb device
• BZ - 1287716 - IPv6 boot support in SLOF
• BZ - 1301081 - IPv6 boot does not work in SLOF when TFTP server is behind a router
• BZ - 1310737 - SLOF cannot boot without a console
• BZ - 1331698 - Network booting in grub fails when using virtio-net and SLOF-20160223-0
• BZ - 1339528 - SLOF boot menu gets delayed if press 'F12' key for multiple times
• BZ - 1352765 - SLOF can not handle devices attached to an XHCI USB hub
• BZ - 1352821 - Key "," can not be inputted during SLOF and yaboot stage

CVEs

(none)

References

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