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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2003
Michael Ryan Davis, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Russ William Herrell, Fort Collins, CO (US);
David R. Maciorowski, Longmont, CO (US);
Paul J. Mantey, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Michael D. Young, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Danial V. Zilavy, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Michael Ryan Davis, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Russ William Herrell, Fort Collins, CO (US);
David R. Maciorowski, Longmont, CO (US);
Paul J. Mantey, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Michael D. Young, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Danial V. Zilavy, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A machine-readable identification register is provided on each cell of a cellular computer system. The identification register is read during system startup to identify a processor type, which may include an instruction set architecture (ISA), associated with the cell. The processor type information is used to ensure that a compatible boot image is provided to processors of the cell. In another embodiment, the system management subsystem has a version selection flag. When the version selection flag is in a first state, the compatible boot image provided to processors of the cell is a current boot image; with the selection flag in a second state the compatible boot image provided to processors of the cell is an older edition of the boot image.