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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2001
Mohan J. Kumar, Aloha, OR (US);
Shivnandan D. Kaushik, Portland, OR (US);
James B. Crossland, Banks, OR (US);
Linda J. Rankin, Portland, OR (US);
David J. O'shea, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Mohan J. Kumar, Aloha, OR (US);
Shivnandan D. Kaushik, Portland, OR (US);
James B. Crossland, Banks, OR (US);
Linda J. Rankin, Portland, OR (US);
David J. O'Shea, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the invention relates to creation of a container object being part of software that is stored in platform readable medium and executed by a processor within a platform. The container comprises (i) a hardware identification object to identify to an operating system of the platform that a type of device represented by the container object is a node and (ii) a plurality of component objects to identify constituent components of the node. Another aspect of the invention is the distribution of BIOS to handle initiation of components of a substrate in response to hot-plug addition of that substrate.