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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2006
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 a method for supporting hibernation despite the presence of hot-plugged nodes and non-deterministic boot operations. The method comprises invoking a management interrupt in response to a Hibernate request. The management interrupt is used to obtain and store platform configuration information into a non-volatile storage location. The platform configuration information includes data to indicate whether a next boot sequence for a platform occurs as a deterministic boot sequence or a non-deterministic boot sequence as well as a boot node identifier and a listing of an order in which processors of the platform are initialized.