US 2014/0157229 A1 · Streamlining Hardware Initialization Code

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, hardware initialization code and error action information are retrieved from separate storage areas. The hardware initialization code includes code that initializes a device, and also includes placeholders corresponding to actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. Likewise, the error action information describes the actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. The error action information is converted into macros that include lines of code. As such, the error action placeholders are matched to the macros and, in turn, each of the error action placeholders is replaced with the lines of code corresponding to the matched macros.

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An information handling system comprising:

one or more processors;
a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
one or more storage areas coupled to at least one of the processors;
a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of:
retrieving, from a first one of the storage areas, hardware initialization code that is adapted to initialize a device, wherein the hardware initialization code also includes an error action placeholder, the error action placeholder corresponding to one or more actions that are performed in response to detecting a failure during the initialization of the device;
retrieving error action information from a second one of the storage areas, wherein the error action information describes one or more of the actions that are performed in response to detecting the failure during the initialization of the device;
converting the error action information to one or more macros, wherein each of the one or more macros includes one or more lines of code;
matching the error action placeholder to one of the macros;
and
replacing the error action placeholder in the hardware initialization code with the lines of code corresponding to the macro that matched the error action placeholder.

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A computer program product stored in a computer readable storage medium, comprising computer program code that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions comprising:

retrieving, from a first one of the storage areas, hardware initialization code that is adapted to initialize a device, wherein the hardware initialization code also includes an error action placeholder, the error action placeholder corresponding to one or more actions that are performed in response to detecting a failure during the initialization of the device;
retrieving error action information from a second one of the storage areas, wherein the error action information describes one or more of the actions that are performed in response to detecting the failure during the initialization of the device;
converting the error action information to one or more macros, wherein each of the one or more macros includes one or more lines of code;
matching the error action placeholder to one of the macros;
and
replacing the error action placeholder in the hardware initialization code with the lines of code corresponding to the macro that matched the error action placeholder.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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