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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2012
Gregory P. Ziarnik, Houston, TX (US);
Michael R. Durham, Tomball, TX (US);
Mark A. Piwonka, Tomball, TX (US);
Gregory P. Ziarnik, Houston, TX (US);
Michael R. Durham, Tomball, TX (US);
Mark A. Piwonka, Tomball, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to locking a system management interrupt (SMI) enable register of a chipset. Example embodiments include at least one contact configuration register to configure a contact of a chipset, and a contact SMI enable register of a chipset to store an enable value or a disable value. In example embodiments, the disable value stored in the contact SMI enable register is to prevent the chipset from providing an SMI request to a processor in response to an SMI signal received at the contact. Example embodiments further include locking the contact SMI enable register.