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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zhi Yong Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Sarathy Jayakumar, Portland, OR (US);
Yi Zeng, Shanghai, CN;
Wenjuan Mao, Shanghai, CN;
Anil Agrawal, Cupertino, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed in one example a multi-core computing system configured to provide a hot-swappable CPU0, including: a first CPU in a first CPU socket and a second CPU in a second CPU socket; a switch including a first media interface to the first CPU socket and a second media interface to the second CPU socket; and one or more mediums including non-transitory instructions to detect a hot swap event of the first CPU, designate the second CPU as CPU0, determine that a new CPU has replaced the first CPU, operate the switch to communicatively couple the new CPU to a backup initialization code store via the first media interface, initialize the new CPU, and designate the new CPU as CPUN, wherein N≠0.