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

[Martin Vorländer]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> schrieb:
> 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 ?

AFAIK the Integrity has *two* firmwares stored. In theory, it should
be able to boot the intact ROM when it detects a corruption on the
half-updated ROM.

cu,
Martin