Dell Products Inc.

Charles Marslett

Lowell B Dennis

Charles Marion Ueltschey, Iii

Pete Woytovech

Methods and systems are disclosed for multi-processor initialization in an information handling system with two or more application processors (APs). One of the APs is configured to be a boot strap processor (BSP) that communicates with the other APs to initialize them prior to initialization of main memory. A basic input output system (BIOS) can be coupled to the APs and can be configured to hold BSP code and AP code used for initialization. APs are then discovered and initialized before the main memory of the system is initialized.

Method and system for initializing application processors in a multi-processor system prior to the initialization of main memory

Methods and systems are disclosed for single list BBS implementations that allow for significant configurability and ease of use improvements. BCV devices are included as individual entries in the IPL list so that intermixing of devices of different device types is freely allowed. As such, users are provided a simplified and more powerful configuration interface through which to select the order of boot devices. In addition, a drive swizzler or hard drive link handler is included to provide an interface between the INTlink chain for hard drives and the operating system.

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Charles Marslett