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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Gerd Bayer, Boeblingen, DE;
Robert Kieninger, Boeblingen, DE;
Marco Kraemer, Boeblingen, DE;
Jakob C. Lang, Boeblingen, DE;
Angel Nunez Mencias, Boeblingen, DE;
Stefan Roscher, Boeblingen, DE;
Stefan Usenbinz, Boeblingen, DE;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Securely removing system capabilities, being available to at least one logical partition, from that partition, the partition being hosted by a computer system running an operating system. The system capabilities are available to a boot loader of the computer system, wherein the boot loader is started in the logical partition. The logical partition remains activated while removing the system capabilities. A removal request is initiated by the boot loader; and a deconfigure command is performed by the boot loader.