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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2005
Martin Dixon, Portland, OR (US);
Michael Cornaby, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Michael Fetterman, Cambourne, GB;
Per Hammarlund, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Martin Dixon, Portland, OR (US);
Michael Cornaby, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Michael Fetterman, Cambourne, GB;
Per Hammarlund, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for requesting an allocation of memory to be a backing store for architectural state information of a processor and storing the architectural state information in the backing store using an application. In this manner, the backing store and processor enhancements using information in the backing store may be transparent to an operating system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.