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Chapter 6

SAM1411 Installation and Use (6806800M91B)

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Firmware Upgrade Facility

6.1

Overview

The Firmware Upgrade Facility (FUF) provides a uniform way to upgrade firmware on Artesyn
hub blades, node blades, and AMC modules. It consists of a Firmware Upgrade Command-line
Utility (FCU), flash device drivers, and specially prepared firmware recovery image files.

6.2

Firmware Recovery Image Files

FCU supports specially prepared firmware recovery image (FRI) files as well as firmware images
in the HPM.1 format. HPM.1 is a PICMG standard to upgrade IPMCs.

By default, the image files for the current hardware configurations are stored in
/opt/bladeservices/rom

.

The following image files are currently supported:

6.3

Backup Concept

When upgrading the U-Boot firmware, or Device Tree Binary image, or Linux kernel, FCU only
writes into the current stand-by bank. After the upgrade, the stand-by bank must be marked
for next use; this means it is executed after the next reboot.

The ATCA-SAM1411 ramdisk is upgraded using the flashcp utility instead of fcu.

Filename

Description

sam1411-kernel.fri

Kernel image for ATCA-SAM1411

sam1411-cpu.fri

U-boot firmware image for ATCA-SAM1411

sam1411-dtb.fri

Device Tree Binary for ATCA-SAM1411