[Info-vax] Inegrity firmware version vs VMS version docs

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-07-10, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>
> *that guess is likely on the low side, as I used to develop firmware at HP,
> after working in VMS Engineering, and did a lot of firmware upgrading.  That 
> number includes upgrading to firmware that was quite buggy, but didn't brick, 
> and allowed a subsequent upgrade.
>

Serious question: What happens on Itanium if, on a rare occasion,
a firmware update, or a power failure at exactly the wrong point,
_does_ well and truly brick the machine ?

Is there anything like a JTAG port which a HPE engineer can use to
install a working version of the firmware ?

Or would the existing onboard recovery process be guaranteed to always
allow the user to recover back to a working firmware version ?

Simon.

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