Cross-component health monitoring and improved repair for self-healing platforms
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsJanusz Jurski, Mariusz Stepka
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Abstract
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects a successful boot of a first firmware component in a computing system, receives a signal from a second firmware component in the computing system, and detects an incompatibility of the first firmware component with respect to the second firmware component based on the signal. In one example, only the first firmware component is repaired in response to the incompatibility.
Claims24
A computing system comprising:
- a power supply to provide power to the computing system;
- a first firmware component;
- a second firmware component communicatively coupled to the first firmware component;
- and
- a cross-component health monitor apparatus communicatively coupled to the first firmware component and the second firmware component, the cross-component health monitor apparatus including a substrate and logic coupled to the substrate, wherein the logic is to:
- detect a successful boot of the first firmware component;
- receive a signal from the second firmware component;
- and
- detect an incompatibility of the first firmware component with respect to the second firmware component based on the signal.
An apparatus comprising:
- a substrate;
- and
- logic coupled to the substrate and implemented at least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality logic hardware, the logic to:
- detect a successful boot of a first firmware component in a computing system;
- receive a signal from a second firmware component in the computing system;
- and
- detect an incompatibility of the first firmware component with respect to the second firmware component based on the signal.
A method comprising:
- detecting a successful boot of a first firmware component in a computing system;
- receiving a signal from a second firmware component in the computing system;
- and
- detecting an incompatibility of the first firmware component with respect to the second firmware component based on the signal.
At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions, which when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:
- detect a successful boot of a first firmware component in the computing system;
- receive a signal from a second firmware component in the computing system;
- and
- detect an incompatibility of the first firmware component with respect to the second firmware component based on the signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.