Facilitating cold reset and warm reset tasking in a computer...

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2007-01-16

2007-01-16

Elamin, A. (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

C713S002000

Reexamination Certificate

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10676600

ABSTRACT:
In response to a cold reset in a computer system, a plurality of indications in a nonvolatile memory are initialized to a first state. Each of the plurality of indications is assigned to a respective one of a plurality of tasks to be executed on one or more processors of the computer system. A first task of the plurality of tasks is executed, including changing a first indication of the plurality of indications to a second state, wherein the first indication is assigned to the first task. A computer accessible medium comprising one or more instructions implementing the initialization and one or more instructions comprise the first task is also contemplated, as well as a computer system including a processor and the computer accessible medium.

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