International Business Machines Corporation

Michael Alan Kobler

Sheldon Ray Bailey

Alongkorn Kitamorn

Wayne Allan Britson

Gary Dean Anderson

Michael Youhour Lim

Stuart Allen Werbner

A system and method for fast system recovery that bypasses diagnostic routines by disconnecting failed hardware from the system before rebooting. Failed hardware and hardware that will be affected by removal of the failed hardware of the system are disconnected from the system. The system is restarted, and because the failed hardware is disconnected, diagnostic routines may safely be eliminated from the reboot process.

Method for fast system recovery via degraded reboot

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions in a data processing system for managing clocks. The functionality of clock sources in the data processing system is verified to identify a set of valid clock sources in response to beginning an initial load process. Hardware is initialized in the data processing system using a valid clock source from the set of valid clock sources.

Method and apparatus for enhancing system clock availability

A method of de-allocating multiple processor cores sharing a failing bank of memory is disclosed. The method allows new multiple-processor integrated circuits with on-chip shared memory to be de-allocated using existing technology designed for use with single-processor integrated circuit technology.

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Michael Alan Kobler