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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2002
Applicants:
Shiraz A. Qureshi, Roseville, CA (US);
Martin O. Nicholes, Antelope, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shiraz A. Qureshi, Roseville, CA (US);
Martin O. Nicholes, Antelope, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The firmware interface table (FIT) of IA-64 instruction set is used to populate the hardware component namespace using secondary system description table (SSDT) data, where the SSDT data describes components in the system. At boot-up time all hardware components are discovered. The Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) sub-system, in the system firmware, consumes the data set-up and loads the SSDTs from the FIT to create the namespace for the active system components.