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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2008
Filed:
May. 22, 2003
Wilhelmus J. M. Diepstraten, Haghorst, NL;
Onno Letanche, Almere, NL;
Wilhelmus J. M. Diepstraten, Haghorst, NL;
Onno Letanche, Almere, NL;
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method, operable in a multi-context processor, for allowing a current context to change an event sensitivity of a future context. In one embodiment, the system includes a context control register, accessible to the current context, for receiving event mask data defining the event sensitivity of the future context. The system further includes a context controller, associated with the context control register and invokable from within the current context, that causes the event mask data to be employed in defining a content of an event mask register of the future context.