55 results about "Firmware version" patented technology

The invention provides a data processing method and an electronic device. The method comprises the steps of determining a plurality of second devices passing verification of a first device in a local area network; obtaining current firmware versions of the plurality of second devices, and determining a target device with the highest current firmware version in the first device and the plurality of second devices based on the current firmware versions of the plurality of second devices; obtaining firmware updating data of the target equipment; and based on the firmware updating data of the target device, updating the current firmware version of the second device of which the current firmware version is lower than that of the target device in the plurality of second devices.

The application provides a firmware version detection method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of firmware detection. A firmware version detection method comprises the following steps: obtaining a corresponding element self-discovery register (CSR) design file based on a target configuration of a current product line server; the CSR design file comprises a latest version CSR firmware package corresponding to the target configuration, a firmware version table and a CSR self-checking program; updating the firmware in the server based on the latest version CSR firmware package to obtain a target server; determining a CSR target version in the target server based on the CSR self-checking program; comparing the CSR target version with the latest version CSR in the firmware version table, and determining a version detection result of the firmware based on the comparison result. Thus, the stability and reliability of the server can be improved, and the use performance of the server can be optimized.

This invention discloses a firmware update method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The firmware update method includes obtaining a firmware update program; executing the firmware update program to enter a firmware update file system; and when device information of the storage device is obtained in the firmware update file system and a firmware version update command is received, updating the firmware of the storage device to the target firmware version while retaining all storage data and serial number of the storage device. This application simplifies firmware updates by automatically updating the storage device's firmware to the target firmware version upon receiving a firmware version update command, while retaining all storage data and serial number. This allows users to update firmware locally without further intervention, reducing the complexity of firmware updates.

The application discloses a decoupling method, device, program product, server and storage medium, and relates to the field of servers. In view of the problem that the close coupling between a BMC and a BIOS causes the firmware versions of both to have to be kept in synchronization at all times, a decoupling method is provided, which introduces semantic hash values to replace field names to perform accurate matching of fields. Because the semantic hash values can represent the essential meaning of the fields better than the field names, the semantic hash values do not require complete consistency of surface names. Therefore, replacing the field names with the semantic hash values to perform field matching can improve compatibility and also enable automatic renaming of the field names. Based on this, the method can reduce the coupling between the BIOS and the BMC, so that the BMC and the BIOS versions can be upgraded independently and do not need to be maintained synchronously, thereby significantly reducing operation and maintenance costs.

1. Name of the product in this design: System Information Graphical User Interface for Electronic Devices. 2. Purpose of this design: To display a graphical user interface. 3. The key design features of this product are the interface content in the graphical user interface. 4. Images or photos that best illustrate the design key points: Interface state change diagrams. 5. The rest of the design is standard, omitting the rear view, left view, right view, top view, and bottom view. 6. Purpose of the graphical user interface: An information interface used to display system information. 7. Human-computer interaction method of graphical user interface: The main view is the central page of system information; by clicking the "Settings" button in the upper right corner of the main view, you can enter the interface change state diagram; the interface change state diagram will display information such as "product model", "operating system", "APP version", "firmware version", "MAC address" and "configuration table version" of the "smart central control".

This application proposes a segmented OTA upgrade method and system adapted to zero-wait-area constraints. The method is applied to a terminal device, which includes flash memory with both zero-wait-area and non-zero-wait-area areas. The method includes: responding to a boot signal from the terminal device, calling a bootloader to read an OTA status flag from the non-zero-wait-area; if the OTA status flag is a first download flag, reading a program startup status flag from the non-zero-wait-area; if the program startup status flag is a first startup flag, calling a quick-write program to rewrite the program startup status flag from the first startup flag to a second startup flag, and starting the main program of the terminal device; responding to a successful boot signal from the main program, rewriting the program startup status flag from the second startup flag back to the first startup flag; if the OTA status flag is a second download flag, downloading a new firmware version for OTA upgrade. This application enables segmented OTA upgrades adapted to zero-wait-area constraints.

To reduce waste of processing time required for updating firmware of a sub-substrate, and to maintain consistency of firmware between sub-substrates.SOLUTION: The PC120 for maintenance makes the secure card substrate 111 read the version information of the firmware of the plurality of sub-substrates B, C113, 114 and transmit it to the PC120 for maintenance, selects the sub-substrate C114 for executing the update of the firmware according to the version information of the plurality of sub-substrates B, C113, 114, transfers a firmware update file to the secure card substrate 111, and then requests the secure card substrate 111 to execute an update sequence. In the update sequence, the firmware update file is transferred to the selected sub board C114, and the firmware is updated based on the firmware update file.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The invention discloses a secure parallel upgrading method and system for firmware of embedded equipment based on a CAN bus, electronic equipment and a medium, and belongs to the field of embedded systems.The secure parallel upgrading method comprises the steps that an equipment management server generates an upgrading data packet; the server generates a temporary session key through a key derivation function, encrypts firmware to be upgraded by using the temporary session key, and then generates a digital signature for encrypted firmware data by using a private key of the server; the server issues the upgrade data packet to the embedded device in parallel through a CAN bus; the embedded device receives the upgrade data packet, derives the same temporary session key by using a preset fixed key and the received random number, verifies the digital signature by using a preset server public key, decrypts the firmware data by using the temporary session key after the verification is passed, and performs integrity verification; and finally, loading and operating the new firmware according to the firmware effective strategy. According to the method, the problems of firmware version synchronization and low serial upgrading speed are solved, and the efficiency and the safety are improved.

Embodiments of the present application provide a power module upgrading method, a server, an electronic device, a storage medium and a program product. The method comprises: obtaining firmware version information of a target power module; when the firmware version information indicates that the firmware version of the target power module is inconsistent with a target version, obtaining a firmware identifier of the target power module; in the case that the firmware identifier indicates that the firmware upgrading mode of the target power module is reset upgrading, controlling the target power module to power off, and replacing the firmware data of the target power module and the current firmware version with firmware data corresponding to the target version, so as to upgrade the firmware of the target power module; in the case that the firmware identifier indicates that the firmware upgrading mode of the target power module is real-time upgrading, replacing the firmware data of the target power module and the current firmware version with firmware data corresponding to the target version, so as to upgrade the firmware of the target power module. The method can realize fast upgrading of the power module.

Upgrading a network appliance to a second firmware is dynamically specified and implemented to minimize network disruption. The installed firmware runs in a first execution domain and the second firmware runs in safe mode in a second execution domain. Upgrade planning data is produced by monitoring service executables in the second execution domain for stage failures at various execution states. The upgrade planning data is used to produce an upgrade specification for upgrading from the installed firmware to the second firmware. The upgrade planning data can indicate that there are execution state dependencies between the service executables. The upgrade specification can be adapted for the execution state dependencies and used by a finite state machine to implement the upgrade.

The invention discloses a decoupling method and device, a program product, a server and a storage medium, and relates to the field of servers. Aiming at the problem that firmware versions of the BMC and the BIOS must be always kept synchronous due to tight coupling between the BMC and the BIOS, a decoupling method is provided, and accurate matching of fields is carried out by introducing semantic hash values instead of field names. Wherein the semantic hash value can better represent the essential meaning of the field compared with the field name, so that the surface name is not required to be completely consistent. Therefore, the field matching is carried out by replacing the field name with the semantic hash value, so that the compatibility can be improved, and the automatic renaming of the field name can be realized. On the basis of the method, the coupling between the BIOS and the BMC can be reduced, so that the BMC and the BIOS version can be independently upgraded without synchronous maintenance, and the operation and maintenance cost is remarkably reduced.

This invention discloses a firmware version switching system, method, and computer device, belonging to the field of electronic technology. The system includes a baseboard management controller, a basic input / output system (PIS), and a VR chip. The output terminal of the baseboard management controller is connected to the first input terminal of the PIS, and the output terminal of the PIS is connected to the input terminal of the VR chip. The technical solution of this invention can automatically and seamlessly complete the BIOS firmware version switching without affecting customer business operations, greatly meeting customer needs, improving operational efficiency, and is applicable to various types of servers.

The invention discloses an HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol) transmission method remote OTA (Over the Air) upgrading application system based on a domestic micro controller, which relates to the technical field of embedded systems and comprises a processor and HTTP server connection establishment module, a Flash storage partition planning and configuration module, a firmware file processing module, a program processing module and a database, the FM33LG0xxA series processor performs data interaction with the 4G module, logs in to connect with the server with an HTTP server, divides a Flash model into a Bootloader program area, a local user program area App1, a remote OTA user program area App2 and a flag bit storage area, then generates a flag frame and a data frame, finally verifies the integrity of a remote OTA program, and determines the integrity of the remote OTA program according to a firmware version, a mandatory bit and a hardware ID. Whether the remote OTA needs to be upgraded or not is judged, the accurate matching performance of the domestic micro controller and the 4G module and the file information analysis efficiency are guaranteed, and the accuracy of remote OTA upgrading judgment is also guaranteed.

This invention relates to the field of server technology and discloses a DevOps-based method and system for remote server firmware upgrades. The system includes: a data acquisition unit that matches the target firmware version based on device identification information and constructs a state parameter set corresponding to the server; a processing unit that performs weighted calculations on the normalized data, generating an execution instruction and sending it to the out-of-band management interface if the upgrade capability boundary value meets the execution conditions, and generating a restriction instruction and writing the upgrade task into a pending queue if the upgrade capability boundary value does not meet the execution conditions; an execution unit that performs firmware upgrades on the server based on the out-of-band management interface and controls the firmware upgrade based on offset generation process instructions; and an update unit that acquires the upgrade result data, associates it with the updated state parameter set, and writes the adjusted weighted calculations into the policy configuration. This invention ensures the stability of remote server firmware upgrades.

Embodiments of the present application provide a kind of interrupt source switching method, device, electronic equipment and computer readable storage medium, when operating system kernel starts, parse interrupt command line parameter, obtain analysis result, the value of the interrupt command line parameter includes the identification of at least one interrupt source, the analysis result is the identification of target interrupt source in at least one the identification of the interrupt source;According to the identification of target interrupt source in the analysis result, the initialization of target interrupt controller is executed, and the target interrupt controller is the interrupt controller corresponding to the identification of target interrupt source specified by user;In response to initiating inter-core interrupt request operation, switch to the target interrupt controller that has completed initialization to send corresponding inter-core interrupt request signal, can be implemented under different platform architecture and different firmware version to the flexible configuration of multiple interrupt sources, to meet IPI interrupt demand, to improve system performance and enhance scalability.

The invention relates to a firmware upgrading method and device, equipment and a medium, and the method comprises the steps: responding to a firmware upgrading event, judging whether the current firmware version information of each chip in local equipment is consistent with the corresponding latest firmware version information in an upgrading server, and determining each target chip with inconsistent version information; obtaining a firmware upgrade package from the upgrade server, wherein the firmware upgrade package comprises upgrade metadata and firmware upgrade data corresponding to each target chip; and according to chip upgrading sequence information in the upgrading metadata, sending the firmware upgrading data to a corresponding target chip in sequence, and driving the target chip to execute firmware upgrading. According to the method and the device, the multi-chip firmware upgrading process is managed in a centralized manner, so that uniform acquisition and ordered upgrading of the firmware upgrading package are realized.

This application provides a unified adaptation method for multi-vendor switches and an SDN controller, including: allocating CMA physical pages for each switch model; establishing a model page table and a shadow bitmap byte array; the model page table records the CMA physical page base address of the switch model; and each bit of each byte in the array represents the existence status of the encoding / decoding context of each firmware version within the corresponding CMA physical page; when an encoding / decoding context of a firmware version for a switch model is generated, it is written to the corresponding slot in the CMA physical page, and the corresponding bit is set to valid; in response to a packet from the target switch, the model identifier and firmware version number are extracted; the target CMA physical page base address is obtained from the model page table based on the model identifier, the firmware version number is read from the shadow bitmap byte array, and the context address is calculated to obtain the encoding / decoding context. This application can avoid memory fragmentation, ensure the resident nature of the context in memory, and achieve fast context determination and latency addressing.

The application discloses a firmware upgrading method and device, equipment and storage medium, and relates to the field of switches, and is used for solving the long time consumption of the current firmware upgrading, and comprises the following steps: checking current firmware versions of all firmwares, and screening firmwares with historical versions from the all firmwares to obtain various to-be-upgraded firmwares; performing upgrading operations on the various to-be-upgraded firmwares respectively to obtain various upgraded firmwares; controlling a central processing unit to power off, and restarting the switch through a baseboard management controller, so that firmware information corresponding to the upgraded firmwares is updated. The application screens to-be-upgraded firmwares, then performs unified upgrading operations on the to-be-upgraded firmwares, and restarts the switch after the upgrading of all to-be-upgraded firmwares is completed, so that the time consumption of the firmware upgrading is reduced.

The invention discloses a control method and device of an Internet of Things system and the intelligent Internet of Things system. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a new version firmware and an updated version number sent by a cloud; sending a version number comparison instruction to each auxiliary device; in response to the restart update instruction, restarting and running the new version firmware; receiving a target version number comparison result sent by each auxiliary device; determining an auxiliary device representing that the firmware version number is the same as the updated version number in the target version number comparison result as an upgraded auxiliary device, and determining an auxiliary device representing that the firmware version number is different from the updated version number as a non-upgraded auxiliary device; sending the new version firmware to the non-upgraded auxiliary equipment; the non-upgraded auxiliary equipment receives the new-version firmware sent by the main equipment or the upgraded auxiliary equipment and is restarted to run the new-version firmware. According to the method and the device, firmware upgrading of all devices is quickly completed.

This invention proposes a firmware update method for a controller with a master-slave board design, relating to the technical field of controller firmware updates. It adds a version identifier and version information to the end of the interrupt vector table in the firmware source code, which is simple, convenient, accurate, and universally applicable. It utilizes a large-capacity non-volatile memory on the motherboard and introduces a dual backup mechanism to prevent firmware update failures from causing the controller to be unable to run the RTS firmware. The host computer caches the firmware in the motherboard's non-volatile memory, and the slave board pulls the version from the motherboard's non-volatile memory, reducing the complexity of the firmware update process. For ease of management, an RTS package generator is used to package an RTS firmware package containing all RTS firmware for both the master and slave boards, and integrity verification information is added. The master and slave board bootloaders synchronize the RTS firmware version from the RTS firmware package cached in the non-volatile memory, achieving automatic distribution of RTS firmware between the master and slave boards and ensuring version compatibility.

The invention discloses a multi-chip series IAP upgrading method and device, a program product and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of chip upgrading. A communication network between the chips is obtained and constructed, and the connection relation of all the chips in the equipment is comprehensively mastered; calculating an optimal transmission path from the main control chip to each chip to be upgraded based on the communication network, and establishing a dynamic routing table to provide reliable path guidance for subsequent data transmission; the method comprises the following steps: analyzing a target chip list and firmware version information in an IAP upgrading instruction, and accurately identifying a target chip needing to be upgraded; the firmware data is divided into a plurality of data packets, and the data packets are transmitted in series according to the optimal transmission path in the dynamic routing table, so that the firmware data transmission of the chip without the direct communication interface is realized; and finally, through firmware verification and updating operation, the reliability of firmware upgrading is ensured. The limitation that only the master control MCU directly connected with the external communication interface can be upgraded in a traditional IAP upgrading scheme is broken through, and the coverage range of firmware upgrading is widened.

The invention discloses a processor firmware updating processing method and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of servers. The method comprises the following steps: when a target processor updates current-version firmware with a hardware log recording function to target-version firmware, updating the current-version firmware with the hardware log recording function to the target-version firmware; and controlling the target processor to stop storing the log record for receiving the hardware key physical signal into the log record storage space and storing the log record into the preset storage space through the substrate management controller, and after the target processor is updated to the target version firmware, obtaining the log record from the preset storage space and writing the log record into the log record storage space, thereby solving the technical problem of log record function failure caused by conflict between the processor upgrading and downgrading channel and the log record channel, and achieving the purposes of not losing the log record; the technical effect of reliability of equipment problem positioning is achieved.

The application discloses a firmware updating method of an expansion card and an electronic device. A controller receives a firmware updating task. A target firmware version number corresponding to a first expansion card is compared with a current firmware version number to obtain a comparison result. In a case where the comparison result indicates that the target firmware version number and the current firmware version number are inconsistent, a firmware image file of the first expansion card is written into a firmware storage space of the first expansion card, and a firmware loading instruction is sent to the first expansion card, so that the first expansion card loads the firmware image file. In the process of loading the firmware image file by the first expansion card, the current firmware version number corresponding firmware is used for service processing. After the first expansion card completes loading the firmware image file, the target firmware version number corresponding firmware is used for service processing. Resources used for loading the firmware image file by the first expansion card and resources used for service processing by the first expansion card are isolated.

The invention relates to a chip firmware upgrading method used in a server cluster, and the method comprises the steps: for a target chip in any node of the server cluster, judging whether the current firmware version of the target chip is consistent with an expected firmware version through an upgrading controller of a Kubernetes Operator, and enabling the expected firmware version to be specified by a self-defined resource of the Kubernetes Operator; and when it is judged that the current firmware version of the target chip is inconsistent with the expected firmware version, the node is placed in a state of prohibiting scheduling of a new application through a driving manager deployed on the node, and migrating a service which runs on the node and uses the target chip to another node, which does not need to be upgraded currently, of the server cluster, deleting a daemon process set which runs on the node and is related to the target chip, and executing upgrading from the current firmware version of the target chip to an expected firmware version through an upgrading controller.

This application discloses a method and electronic device for firmware rollback prevention, relating to the field of computer system technology. The disclosed method includes: obtaining the highest historical firmware version currently running; obtaining the current firmware version currently running; and executing a preset startup operation in response to the current firmware version being no lower than the highest historical firmware version. This application obtains the highest historical firmware version and the current firmware version currently running, and detects potential firmware rollback attacks by performing version verification based on the highest historical firmware version and the current firmware version. Furthermore, when the current firmware version is no lower than the highest historical firmware version, it is considered that there is no firmware rollback attack, and the preset startup operation is executed to control the normal startup of the computing device.

Device and environmental data are collected from user devices participating in communication sessions of a communications platform. The device and environmental data includes at least one of hardware specifications, firmware versions, processor utilization, memory utilization, ambient noise levels, or device statuses. A device-related or environmental issue is identified based on the device and environmental data. A notification is generated in response to identifying the device-related or environmental issue.

Systems and methods for updating a network appliance. The method includes receiving an update request from a network appliance, wherein the update request includes at least one self-signed certificate; executing an authentication procedure to authenticate the network appliance; providing the network appliance with at least one updated certificate associated with a controller device; enabling communication between the appliance and a controller device; and providing to the appliance a network resource location indicator of a firmware repository including an updated firmware version to allow the appliance to obtain the updated firmware version.

The application discloses a method, an electronic device and a storage medium for upgrading non-system firmware, wherein the method comprises the following steps: obtaining a current non-system firmware version from a version number area; obtaining a non-system firmware upgrade package to be upgraded according to the current non-system firmware version; and writing special upgrade instructions for non-system firmware upgrade and a non-system firmware upgrade package path into a preset position of a boot communication partition according to a non-system firmware version of a version number binary image file in the non-system firmware upgrade package. The application provides an execution logic for separately updating non-system firmware, so that the non-system firmware can be separately updated and does not need to be updated together with system firmware, thereby reducing the risk of non-system firmware upgrade and improving the update efficiency of the non-system firmware.

This invention discloses an automatic and batch upgrade method, device, and storage medium for array-type server backplanes. The method is applied to array-type server systems. It receives upgrade commands from a preset timed wake-up program, determines whether the firmware version information of each backplane unit is consistent with the current firmware version information of the array-type server system. If inconsistent, a preset upgrade firmware package is downloaded to a temporary directory in the BMC management module, and the MD5 value of the upgrade firmware package is verified. The BMC management module triggers a thread pool mode to perform concurrent upgrades on each backplane unit, generating an upgrade report indicating firmware upgrade completion. The timed wake-up program is then activated, periodically sending upgrade commands to achieve zero-contact physical upgrades, facilitating maintenance / updating of the backplane firmware. Furthermore, the parallel upgrade method shortens upgrade time and significantly improves operational efficiency.

Systems and methods are disclosed for automating firmware updating on a computing system. Specifically, the aspects and features disclosed allow a baseboard management controller (BMC) to automatically step through the local firmware versions of various components of a computing system and compare those versions with up-to-date firmware versions to see whether any of the local firmware versions should be replaced with the respective up-to-date firmware version. The up-to-date firmware versions can be obtained from vendor firmware server(s) either locally by the computing system (e.g., by a BMC or main processor of the computing system) or remotely. When up-to-date firmware versions are obtained remotely, a facilitator system can obtain the up-to-date firmware versions and save them to a removable storage device, which can be temporarily coupled to the BMC of the computing system to automatically update the firmware of the components of that computing system.