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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2007
Ming-lung Chiu, Gueishan Township, Taoyuan County, TW;
Arman Toorians, San Jose, CA (US);
Aleksandr Frid, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chung-yuan Huang, Taipei, TW;
Chia-ching Lin, Panchaug, TW;
Chien-ting Yeh, Linkou Shiang, TW;
Ming-Lung Chiu, Gueishan Township, Taoyuan County, TW;
Arman Toorians, San Jose, CA (US);
Aleksandr Frid, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chung-Yuan Huang, Taipei, TW;
Chia-Ching Lin, Panchaug, TW;
Chien-Ting Yeh, Linkou Shiang, TW;
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for enabling an auxiliary system to retrieve the system information from a computing device are disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of requesting for the system information from an embedded controller of the computing device through a first bi-directional data bus if the computing device is shut down, requesting for the system information from the computing device through the first bi-directional bus during the boot-up sequence of the computing device, and requesting for the system information from the computing device through a general purpose input/output (GPIO) after the computing device completes the boot-up sequence.