Intel Corporation

Sk Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp.

Daniel K Osawa

Kelly Couch

Maciej Plucinski

Mohan J Kumar

Murugasamy K Nachimuthu

Scott P Dubal

James Robert Hearn

Kevin Liedtke

Sharada Ashok Shiddibhavi

Patrick J McLAUGHLIN

Examples described herein relate to a network interface receiving a firmware update from one or more packets. In some examples, the one or more packets indicate a start of a firmware update. In some examples, the network interface can also perform authenticating the start of firmware update indication and based on authentication of the firmware update, permit a firmware update of a device. In some examples, the device is one or more of: Board Management Controller (BMC), central processing unit (CPU), network interface, Ethernet controller, storage controller, memory controller, display engine, graphics processing unit (GPU), accelerator device, or peripheral device. In some examples, an end of firmware update indicator is received in the one or more packets. In some examples, communications are maintained through a port during a firmware change.

Device firmware update techniques

Examples include updating firmware for a persistent memory module in a computing system during runtime. Examples include copying a new version of persistent memory module firmware into an available area of random-access memory (RAM) in the persistent memory module, and transferring processing of a current version of persistent memory module firmware to the new version of persistent memory module firmware during runtime of the computing system, without a reset of the computing system and without quiesce of access to persistent memory media in the persistent memory module, while continuing to perform critical event handling by the current version of persistent memory module firmware. Examples further include initializing the new version of persistent memory module firmware; and transferring processing of critical event handling from the current version of persistent memory module firmware to the new version of persistent memory module firmware when initializing the new version of persistent memory module firmware is completed.

Memory device firmware update and activation without memory access quiescence

Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that receives, at a remote access controller of a computing system, configuration data associated with a non-volatile memory of the computing system, wherein the configuration data is received while the computing system is in a sleep state. The technology may also store the configuration data and provide a host processor of the computing system with access to the configuration data. In one example, receipt of the configuration data bypasses a memory configuration-related reboot of the computing system and the configuration data is received via an out-of-band management interface.

Non-volatile memory out-of-band management interface for all host processor power states

Apparatuses, methods and storage media for communications between a peripheral device and host device in the absence of established connection between the devices are described. In one instance, an apparatus may include a host processor, a memory, and a controller coupled with the host processor and the memory and configured to detect for a communication broadcasted via an advertising channel by a peripheral device; determine whether a unique identifier previously communicated to the peripheral device is present in the detected communication; and provide a message corresponding to the communication to the host processor for processing, based on a result of the determination. The apparatus communicates with the peripheral device via a connection established over communication channels. The advertising channel and the communication channels are different. The connection between the devices is not established when the communication is broadcasted via the advertising channel. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Broadcasting communications over an advertising channel

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Tigard, OR, United States of America

Daniel K Osawa