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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2006
Applicant:
A. Kent Porterfield, New Brighton, MN (US);
Inventor:
A. Kent Porterfield, New Brighton, MN (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A linked list is implemented in hardware. Various registers within the linked list are writeable until a control register is written, rendering the registers read-only. A computer peripheral includes the hardware linked list to provide a list of capabilities to a querying device. The linked list can be built, modified, or disabled by low level software, and then locked so that it appears as read-only to higher level software such as an operating system or device driver.