Dell PowerEdge M710 Technical Manual page 47

Type
Purpose
Can user programs or operating system write
data to it during normal operation?
How is data input to this memory?
How is this memory write protected?
HDD Backplane Firmware (SEP) Memory
Size
Type
Purpose
Can user programs or operating system write
data to it during normal operation?
How is data input to this memory?
How is this memory write protected?
iDRAC6 Enterprise SPI Flash
Size
Type
Purpose
Can user programs or operating system write
data to it during normal operation?
How is data input to this memory?
How is this memory write protected?
TPM (for boards shipped outside of China)
Size
Type
Purpose
Can user programs or operating system write
data to it during normal operation?
How is data input to this memory?
How is this memory write protected?
Dell PowerEdge M710 Technical Guide
NAND Flash
This device stores the iDRAC6 kernel and other
data for system management.
Yes. Under software control.
I2C bus from iDRAC
Only the iDRAC can write to the chip
Details
32KB
Flash
Interface between the RAID controller and the
hard drives as well as a controller for the HDD
status LED
No; a special (not available to customers) DOS
utility is needed to flash the application code,
and the boot block is cable flashed only
Cable flash to flash entire chip or a special utility
(not available to customers) to flash in DOS
Software write protected; no hardware protection
pin
Details
2MB
SPI Flash
There is boot code that is used by the iDRAC6
Enterprise management controller. Also contains
the Life Cycle Log which contains server
management data unique to the run-time events
of the server itself.
No
Flashed in the factory or using Dell flash utility.
Also written to by the iDRAC6 Enterprise
controller to make Life Cycle Log (LCL) entries.
Software write protected
Details
Unspecified size of user ROM, RAM, EEPROM;
128 bytes of OTP memory included
ROM, RAM, EEPROM
Trusted Platform Module NV storage. May be used
to securely store user data.
Yes, OSes and applications that conform to the
TCG standard can write data to the TPM during
normal operation. Access to the NV Storage is
controlled by the TPM owner.
TCG TPM Specification defined command
interface.
As defined by the TCG TPM Specification,
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