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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Daniel M. Crowell, Rochester, MN (US);
John Farrugia, Austin, TX (US);
Michael J. Jones, Cedar Park, TX (US);
David Dean Sanner, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, hardware initialization code and error action information are retrieved from separate storage areas. The hardware initialization code includes code that initializes a device, and also includes placeholders corresponding to actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. Likewise, the error action information describes the actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. The error action information is converted into macros that include lines of code. As such, the error action placeholders are matched to the macros and, in turn, each of the error action placeholders is replaced with the lines of code corresponding to the matched macros.