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MVME5100 VPD Reference Information
B Displays most of the identification strings and hardware clock
frequencies
Serial EEPROM command - srom;i
Can be used as a byte viewer
Indirect block move command - ibm<addr>;i
Reads the entire SROM block to memory
Memory display command - md<addr>
Can be used to display a VPD block which has been copied to
memory
Network I/O physical command - niop
Can be used to upload a VPD block from memory to a network
file
How to Modify the VPD Information
The following commands can be used to modify the VPD information in
various ways:
Serial EEPROM command - srom;i
Can be used as a byte editor
Network I/O physical command - niop
Can be used to download a VPD block from a network file to
memory
Indirect block move command - ibm<addr>;iw
Writes a block of memory into the SROM
SROM update command - update
Updates each SROM on the board to the current revision using
network files