[johnnym]

Any feedback on the newer firmware?

I won't upgrade unless worth it. System gets used often.

http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/firmware/712/ has a changelog (assuming this is the same firmware update image).

Depending on what you have now, "More reliable LAN operation" sounds like it could be useful, though the built-in network is very weak even after applying it. I usually limit the port speed to 10 Mbps and enable flow control on the respective switch port (an Ethernet hub would maybe even the better solution, but I don't have one) and it can (or could in the past - haven't done it recently) be used to boot Debian GNU/Linux Sid over the network successfully, but doing package upgrades usually killed it. So this was done on more powerful machines, the userland being the same for both 32-bit and 64-bit HP9000 machines comes very handy for this use case.