Oracle Linux Might Panic At Boot Time; System Experiences Frequent Hard Resets With Freeipmi-Bmc-Watchdog Installed - Oracle Sun Fire X4170 M2 Product Notes

Workaround:
Do the following:
1. Install the Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) package from yum or from the
operating system installation disk.
2. Add or unmask "MLX4_LOAD=yes" in the /etc/rdma/rdma.conf file.

Oracle Linux might panic at boot time

Bug ID 20157307
Oracle Linux may panic at boot time with backtrace "__cpufreq_governor".
Affected Software:
Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server
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Sun Fire X4270 M2 Server
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Oracle Linux 6.6 and 7.0 with UEK3QU4 (3.8.13-55) and any older UEK3 kernels
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Release 1.7.4 through 1.10.1
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Workaround:
If this issue occurs, perform a manual reset on the system. This issue will be fixed in a future
UEK kernel.
System experiences frequent hard resets with freeipmi-bmc-
watchdog installed
Bug ID 20367749
The system experiences frequent hard resets when Oracle Linux 6.6 with the "freeipmi-bmc-
watchdog" (watchdog timer) package is installed.
Affected hardware and software:
Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server
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Sun Fire X4270 M2 Server
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Oracle Linux 6.6
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Release 1.7.4 through 1.10.1
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Workaround:
Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers Product Notes
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