Detection and remediation of runtime crashes in heterogeneous operating environments
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsIbrahim SAYYED, Adolfo S. MONTERO, Amit Kumar TIWARI
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Abstract
An information handling system may include a host system including at least one host processor and a basic input/output system (BIOS); and an embedded controller (EC) including an EC processor. In response to the information handling system receiving an instruction from a user to initiate a forced power off, the EC may be configured to: store diagnostic information indicating a state of the host system; and upon a subsequent boot of the host system, transmit information to the BIOS indicating the forced power off.
Claims18
An information handling system comprising:
- a host system including at least one host processor and a basic input/output system (BIOS);
- and
- an embedded controller (EC) including an EC processor;
- wherein, in response to the information handling system receiving an instruction from a user to initiate a forced power off, the EC is configured to:
- store diagnostic information indicating a state of the host system;
- and
- upon a subsequent boot of the host system,
- transmit information to the BIOS indicating the forced power off.
A method comprising:
- an information handling system receiving an instruction from a user to initiate a forced power off;
- in response to the instruction, an embedded controller (EC) of the information handling system storing diagnostic information indicating a state of a host system of the information handling system;
- and
- upon a subsequent boot of the host system, the EC transmitting information to a BIOS of the information handling system indicating the forced power off.
An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory, computer-readable medium having computer-executable code thereon that is executable by an information handling system for:
- receiving an instruction from a user to initiate a forced power off;
- in response to the instruction, an embedded controller (EC) of the information handling system storing diagnostic information indicating a state of a host system of the information handling system;
- and
- upon a subsequent boot of the host system, the EC transmitting information to a BIOS of the information handling system indicating the forced power off.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.