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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Binh T. Truong, Houston, TX (US);
Larry W. Kunkel, Spring, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/22 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4403 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01); G06F 11/004 (2013.01); G06F 11/221 (2013.01); G06F 11/2284 (2013.01); G06F 13/385 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus to initialize a port includes a first input-output port to connect to a first device and a control unit to initialize all input-output ports of the apparatus when the apparatus is booted and to skip a power-on self-test (POST) of the first input-output port in response to a request to skip initialization of the first input-output port while the first input-output port is enabled.