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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2000
Kent Andrew Dickey, Westford, MA (US);
James Curtis Farmer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method using a set of registers for indicating multiple error levels in a data processing system, recording information for each error level, and providing an order register to allow software or a user to determine the sequence order in which errors occurred. One embodiment of the invention involves a method for indicating errors in a data processing system with multiple error levels, indicating that an error corresponds to an error level, representing the error with a set of memory cells, and recording the order in which the error has occurred. A second embodiment of the invention involves a data processing system, including a primary error log to record an error, and at least one error logging register that can record information about the error. A third embodiment of the invention involves an error log system, including a primary error log to record an error having a corresponding error level, an error logging register corresponding to one of a plurality of error levels to record information about the error, and an error order register to record information about the order of occurrence of the error.