Dell R420 manual Bios, Dell Inc

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Item

How is data input to this memory?

How is this memory write protected?

 

 

 

Planer

 

 

 

 

 

PCH Internal CMOS RAM

BIOS

N/A – BIOS only control

 

 

 

BIOS SPI Flash

SPI interface via iDRAC

Software write protected

 

 

 

iDRAC SPI Flash

SPI interface via iDRAC

Embedded iDRAC subsystem firmware

 

 

actively controls sub area based write

 

 

protection as needed.

 

 

 

BMC EMMC

NAND Flash interface via iDRAC

Embedded FW write protected

 

 

 

CPU Vcore and VSA

Once value are loaded into register

There are passwords for different sections of

Regulators

space a cmd writes to nvm.

the register space

 

 

 

System CPLD RAM

Not utilized

Not accessible

 

 

 

System Memory

System OS

OS Control

 

 

 

Power Supplies

 

 

 

 

 

PSU FW

Different vendors have different

Protected by the embedded microcontroller.

 

utilities and tools to load the data to

Special keys are used by special vendor

 

memory. It can also be loaded by

provided utilities to unlock the ROM with

 

Dell Update Package from LC or OS

various CRC checks during load.

 

(Windows and Linux)

 

 

 

 

4x3.5" Backplane

 

 

 

 

 

SEP internal flash

I2C interface via iDRAC

Program write protect bit

 

 

 

8x2.5" Backplane

 

 

 

 

 

SEP internal flash

I2C interface via iDRAC

Program write protect bit

 

 

 

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