公开(公告)号：US07234050B2

公开(公告)日：2007-06-19

申请号：US10641208

申请日：2003-08-14

申请人： Jing J. Agan ,  Joseph W. Shifflett ,  Kevin Depew

发明人： Jing J. Agan ,  Joseph W. Shifflett ,  Kevin Depew

IPC分类号： G06F15/177 ,  G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/4411

摘要： Techniques for initializing/reinitializing a device on an expansion card without power cycling the system. More specifically, an instruction set is provided such that a device on an expansion card can be reinitialized without power cycling the system. Further, the instruction set may be implemented to initialize a device on a replacement expansion card. During the system boot, an expansion basic input/output system (BIOS) is copied into the system memory. After the system boot, a copy of the configuration information for the device on the expansion card is saved in a backup file in the system memory. The expansion card can be removed and replaced and the configuration information stored in the backup file in the system memory can be used to configure the replacement device. The copy of the expansion BIOS in the system memory can be reprogrammed such that it can be implemented to initialize the device on the replacement expansion card without power cycling the system.

公开(公告)号：US07430662B2

公开(公告)日：2008-09-30

申请号：US11786007

申请日：2007-04-10

申请人： Jing J. Agan ,  Joseph W. Shifflett ,  Kevin Depew

发明人： Jing J. Agan ,  Joseph W. Shifflett ,  Kevin Depew

IPC分类号： G06F15/177

CPC分类号： G06F9/4411

摘要： Techniques for initializing/reinitializing a device on an expansion card without power cycling the system. More specifically, an instruction set is provided such that a device on an expansion card can be reinitialized without power cycling the system. Further, the instruction set may be implemented to initialize a device on a replacement expansion card. During the system boot, an expansion basic input/output system (BIOS) is copied into the system memory. After the system boot, a copy of the configuration information for the device on the expansion card is saved in a backup file in the system memory. The expansion card can be removed and replaced and the configuration information stored in the backup file in the system memory can be used to configure the replacement device. The copy of the expansion BIOS in the system memory can be reprogrammed such that it can be implemented to initialize the device on the replacement expansion card without power cycling the system.

摘要翻译： 在扩展卡上初始化/重新初始化设备的技术，而无需重新启动系统。 更具体地，提供指令集，使得扩展卡上的设备可以被重新初始化，而不需要对系统进行电力循环。 此外，可以实现指令集以初始化替换扩展卡上的设备。 在系统引导期间，扩展基本输入/输出系统（BIOS）被复制到系统存储器中。 系统启动后，扩展卡上设备的配置信息副本保存在系统内存中的备份文件中。 扩展卡可以被删除和替换，存储在系统内存中的备份文件中的配置信息可用于配置更换设备。 系统内存中的扩展BIOS的副本可以重新编程，以便可以实现它来初始化替换扩展卡上的设备，而无需重新启动系统。