Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1656)

Boot Version 10.2 for NIC, iSCSI, FCoE, and RoCE Protocols User Manual P010097-01B Rev. A
11. Configuring UEFI for Ethernet
Downloading Firmware and Boot Code
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FoD Status: The FoD Status field indicates whether a license key has been applied
properly or not.
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When the FoD status field is set to “Enabled”, it indicates that the FoD
license key has been successfully applied and FoD is enabled. When FoD is
enabled, you will see all of the storage personalities under the Personality
menu option, including NIC, iSCSI, and FCOE.
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In all other cases, the FoD Status field indicates that a failure has occurred or
that an FoD license has not been applied.
Downloading Firmware and Boot Code
A single firmware image contains the latest version of the firmware and boot code.
The ELX UNDI driver implements the PXE UNDI API services used by the SNP driver
during PXE boot and while executing an NBP. The boot hardware abstraction layer
(HAL) provides the OneConnect IOCTL interface API for the UNDI driver.
The firmware and UEFI NIC, iSCSI, and FCoE drivers are contained in one image file
with the .UFI extension. This file must be flashed through the NIC interface exposed by
HII.
To view the adapter’s current firmware and boot code version, follow the steps in
“Starting the Emulex NIC Configuration Utility” on page 1626.
The Emulex NIC Selection screen displays the current firmware version for the selected
adapter and a link to the Emulex Flash Update Utility, which you can use to download
firmware and boot code.
To download firmware and boot code:
1. In an open UEFI shell, copy the firmware and boot code file into a directory on the
EFI partition media.
Figure 11-24 UEFI Shell with Firmware and Boot Code File
2. Exit the UEFI shell and launch the Emulex NIC configuration utility.
3. From the Network device list, select the NIC adapter you want to modify and press
<Enter>.
4. The Emulex NIC Selection screen (Figure 11-1) shows information for the selected
adapter. Select Emulex Flash Update Utility and press <Enter>. The Emulex Flash