Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Jason W Reasor

Greg Albrecht

Scott Lynn Michaelis

Bradley Gordon Culter

Kenneth John Geer

According to at least one embodiment, a method of managing configuration data for a multi-cell computer system is provided. The method comprises storing configuration data for a given multi-cell computer system to nonvolatile memory of at least one cell of the given multi-cell computer system. The method further comprises storing a corresponding identifier to the nonvolatile memory of the at least one cell that uniquely identifies the given multi-cell computer system to which the stored configuration data corresponds.

System and method for managing configuration data for a multi-cell computer system

A method for providing a firmware developer user interface in a multi-nodal computer system comprises polling for a break command during boot of a multi-nodal computer system and invoking a firmware developer user interface when the break command is encountered.

Firmware developer user interface with break command polling

A detector detects information about a firmware system. The detector includes an interface that receives a generic instruction. The generic instruction may be a function call made through an EFI shell. The detector has a controller communicatively connected to the interface. The controller receives the generic instruction and gathers information about the firmware system. Gathering information about the firmware system permits platform-specific firmware system functions to be written to the firmware system. The controller gathers information about the firmware system by accessing a data-gathering function based on the generic instruction. The controller retrieves the information through the data-gathering function and transfers the information to the interface.

Detector and operational method for a firmware interface

A method and system for injecting scanned data into rings located in different system devices comprises configuring a utility buffer from a specified scan path by combining one or more fields from a database having one or more fields, locking a specified ring on each devices specified on the desired scan path, allowing a desired value to be written concurrently into the same fields of the devices, and allowing the utility buffer to be written back to interposed status registers of the one ring in each of the devices to cause the data in the status registers to be scanned out for reading into the fields of the utility buffer.

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Jason W Reasor