摘要:
A method and system for establishing a virtualized environment includes booting a first virtual machine monitor to establish a first virtual machine and booting a second virtual machine monitor in the first virtual machine. The first and second virtual machine monitors may be hypervisors. The method may also include directing management interrupts, such as system management interrupts and/or platform management interrupts, to the first virtual machine monitor.
摘要:
A method and system for supporting recovery of a computing device includes determining and storing a sub-set of firmware instructions used to establish a pre-boot environment and executing the sub-set of firmware instructions in response to an error.
摘要:
A method and system for recovery of a computing environment includes monitoring during a pre-boot phase and a runtime phase of a computing device for selection of a hot key sequence by a user and performing a recovery action in response to the selection of the hot key sequence by the user. The recovery action may be any one of a number of predetermined and/or selectable actions such as restoring system defaults, migrating memory, displaying a menu of options, setting various software flags, restarting or rebooting the computing device, and/or the like.
摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention provide for remote provisioning using a device identifier. In some embodiments, a client device may transmit the device identifier to a provisioning server and, sometime after an association of the device identifier and the client device has been authenticated, receive an operating system boot image from the provisioning server. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
摘要:
In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to managing power utilization in partitioned systems. In at least one embodiment, the present invention is intended to control the sleeping/wakefulness of devices, as necessary, to minimize power utilization of devices whose accesses are routed away. Inter-partition communication is used to utilize devices in a sequestered partition while devices in the OS partition are put into a sleep state to save power. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
摘要:
Example apparatus and methods associated with remote diagnostics are described. One apparatus embodiment includes a logic to determine a state of a device associated with a computing platform to which the apparatus is operably connected. The apparatus embodiment may include logic to provide a signal to a remote logic regardless of the state of the computing platform. The apparatus embodiment may also include logic to receive a signal from a remote logic regardless of the state of the computing platform. The apparatus may facilitate actions associated with remote diagnostics including, inventorying add-on devices, controlling add-on device diagnostic execution, and selectively configuring the computing platform based on add-on device diagnostic results.
摘要:
A software-defined radio (SDR) capability may be provided in a general purpose, many core processing system by sequestering one or more partitions running on one or more cores and instantiating a communications capability by having discrete SDR functions performed by the sequestered partitions. Each SDR module embodied in a sequestered partition may be independently upgraded without modifying the hardware of the underlying processing system. By executing SDR modules in cores not accessible by application programs and/or an operating system (OS), a better Quality of Service (QoS) may be provided for wireless communications on the general purpose, multi-core processing system. An embodiment comprises isolating a core of a many core processing system as a sequestered partition, loading a software-defined radio module onto the core, and executing the software-defined module to implement wireless communications.
摘要:
A method and system to access the firmware of a remote computer. The remote computer receives a request from a caller computer on a network. The request includes a task to be performed independent of an operating system of the remote computer. The remote computer processes the request and executes the task assigned in the request. The remote computer returns a response that contains information regarding the performance of the task to the caller computer. In one embodiment, the caller computer is a server and the remote computer is a client connected to the network. In another embodiment, the firmware of the remote computer operates in accordance with the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) framework standard.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus dynamically reconfigure storage or channel capacities in a memory system. A fully-buffered dual in-line memory module (DIMM) is configured for a particular storage capacity and a particular channel capacity. An error may be detected at a memory address in some portion of the DIMM. To resolve the problem, the storage capacity or the channel capacity may be reduced and the DIMM may be dynamically reconfigured according to the reduced capacity. For one embodiment the DIMM may be reconfigured by mapping the portion of the DIMM containing the error as unavailable and taking that portion off-line without taking the entire DIMM off-line. For another embodiment the DIMM may be reconfigured by throttling the DIMM at a reduced frequency. The portion of the DIMM containing the error may be retested at the reduced frequency. If no errors are detected, the DIMM may be made available at the reduced frequency.