Method and apparatus for functional redundancy check mode recovery
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsBryant E. Bigbee, Shivnandan Kaushik, James B. Crossland
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for functional redundancy check mode recovery is disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment includes detecting an event associated with a device within a data processing system, initiating a platform-independent device removal sequence for the device in response to detecting the event, virtually ejecting the device from the data processing system in response to initiating the platform-independent device removal sequence, and servicing the event associated with the device in response to virtually ejecting the device from the data processing system.
Claims30
A method comprising:
- detecting an event associated with a device within a data processing system;
- initiating a platform-independent device removal sequence for said device in response to detecting said event associated with said device;
- virtually ejecting said device from said data processing system in response to initiating said platform-independent device removal sequence for said device;
- and
- servicing said event associated with said device in response to virtually ejecting said device from said data processing system.
A machine-accessible medium having machine-executable instructions embodied therein which, when executed by a machine, causes said machine to perform a method comprising:
- detecting an event associated with a device within a data processing system;
- initiating a platform-independent device removal sequence for said device in response to detecting said even t associated with said device;
- virtually ejecting said device from said data processing system in response to initiating said platform-independent device removal sequence for said device;
- and
- servicing said event associated with said device in response to virtually ejecting said device from said data processing system.
A data processing system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to said processor, said memory including a firmware interface to initiate a platform-independent device removal sequence for said processor in response to a detection of an event associated with said processor, to virtually eject said processor from said data processing system in response to an initiation of a platform-independent device removal sequence for said processor, and to service said event associated with said processor in response to a virtual ejection of said processor from said data processing system.
An apparatus comprising:
- a first firmware interface to detect an event associated with a processor within a data processing system;
- a second firmware interface to initiate a platform-independent device removal sequence for said processor in response to a detection of said event associated with said processor;
- a third firmware interface to virtually eject said processor from said data processing system in response to an initiation of a platform-independent device removal sequence for said processor;
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- a fourth firmware interface to service said event associated with said processor in response to a virtual ejection of said processor from said data processing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.