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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2002
Applicant:
Todd A. Schelling, Irmo, SC (US);
Inventor:
Todd A. Schelling, Irmo, SC (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method to determine a healthy group of processors and associated firmware for booting a system after a resetting event is disclosed. Redundant copies of processor specific firmware are examined for validity. Processors determine their own health status, and one processor determines a group of processors with the best available health status. Inter-processor interrupt messages provide the communication mechanism to allow an algorithm to determine a group of processors to continue booting the system.