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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAntonio Abbondanzio, Gregory William Dake, William Joseph Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades
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A system for storing and configuring CMOS setting information remotely in a sewer blade environment includes a management module having includes persistent storage containing a table of CMOS setting information for each server blade. Each server blade includes boot block software that executes when the blade is booted. The boot block software initiates communication with the management module and retrieves its CMOS settings from the table. Thus, CMOS settings for a particular blade location remain unchanged each time a blade is replaced or upgraded. The management module and saver blades may implement a programming interface tat includes command abstractions for each CMOS setting. The management module sends command abstractions to each sewer blade during the CMOS configuration process. The server blade interprets the commands and maps the commands to specific CMOS bit addresses thereby making the specific CMOS implementation employed by any server blade transparent to the management module.
A data processing configuration, comprising:
A method of booting data processing subsystems in a data processing configuration, comprising:
A computer program product comprising computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable medium for booting data processing subsystem in a data processing configuration, the instructions comprising:
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