According to certain embodiments, a system includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause one or more components to perform operations including executing a software process of a secondary instance, the secondary instance running in parallel with a primary instance and associated with a plurality of cores including a bootstrap core, registering a non-maskable interrupt for the bootstrap core in the secondary instance, determining whether the secondary instance is in a fault state, wherein, if the secondary instance is in the fault state, halting the plurality of cores associated with the secondary instance, without impact to the primary instance, and recovering the bootstrap core by switching a context of the bootstrap core from the secondary instance to the primary instance via the non-maskable interrupt.

An Information Handling System (IHS) includes multiple hardware devices, and a baseboard Management Controller (BMC) in communication with the plurality of hardware devices. The BMC includes executable instructions for monitoring a parameter of one or more of the hardware devices of the IHS when a custom BMC firmware stack is executed on the BMC. The instructions that monitor the parameter are separate and distinct from the instructions of the custom BMC firmware stack. When the parameter exceeds a specified threshold, the instructions are further executed to control the BMC to perform one or more operations to remediate the excessive parameter.

A processing system comprises a first subsystem comprising at least one host processor and one or more storage units, and a second subsystem comprising at least one second processor. Each second processor comprises a plurality of tiles. Each tile comprises a processing unit and memory. At least one storage unit stores bootloader code for each of first and second subsets of the plurality of tiles of at least one second processor. The first subsystem writes bootloader code to each of the first subset of tiles of the at least one second processor. At least one of the first subset of tiles requests at least one of the storage units to return the bootloader code to the second subset of the plurality of tiles. Each tile to which the bootloader code is written retrieves boot code from the storage unit and then runs said boot code.

A vehicle control apparatus may include a host including a driving application of a vehicle controller and a hardware security module that determines whether to transmit a message for allowing booting of the host to the host, according to a result of a secure boot at an n-th cycle, and determines whether to perform the secure boot at a (n+1)-th cycle, depending on whether the message is transmitted to the host.

A method for preparing fast boot of an information handling apparatus. The information handling apparatus contains a first CPU configured to connect to a storage device storing firmware and a second CPU connected to the first CPU. The method contains the steps of: allocating a firmware region in memories associated with each one of the first and second CPUs respectively; and copying a firmware from a storage device to the firmware region of each one of the memories. By utilizing a system memory such as NVDIMM which provides higher access speed than NAND flash and also persistent data storage, one or more CPUs can be booted from firmware images in the NVDIMM much faster, thus saving the total booting time.

Disclosed are various examples for enrolling a device in a management service. An enrollment wizard can include a series of user interfaces to facilitate enrollment of a device in the management service. Enrollment data can be obtained from the user and sent to the management service for authentication of the user and device. A user interface object can be instantiated to access a webpage within a user interface of the enrollment wizard for downloading a configuration profile provided by the management service. A user can be redirected to a settings application to install the configuration profile.

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a pre-boot configuration operation. The pre-boot configuration operation includes performing a pre-boot system configuration operation using an ancillary integrated processor system, the pre-boot system configuration operation configuration certain parameters prior to initiation of a primary system boot operation; and, configuring an information handling system to automatically operate in a particular system configuration mode after performance of the pre-boot system configuration operation.

An electronic device is provided such that a user can experience a quick launch of an application therein. The electronic device includes a housing, a display, an input unit, a processor, a non-volatile memory to store an application program, and a volatile memory to store instructions that allow the processor to load a first part of the application program in the volatile memory based on a first change of state of the electronic device, to load a second part of the application program in the volatile memory based on a second change of state of the electronic device and to display an image or text generated by the loaded first or second part. Since at least part of the application is preloaded before the second input is generated, only the remainder of the application has to be loaded in order to execute the application after the second input is generated.

Disclosed is a multi-processor system, which includes a master processor, a non-volatile memory and a plurality of slave processors. The non-volatile memory is used to store first boot firmware and second boot firmware. Each slave processor includes a JTAG port, and each JTAG port is respectively connected to one I/O port of the master processor. When the master processor is powered on or rebooted, it reads the first boot firmware and performs a booting process. After the master processor completes the booting process, it establishes communication connections with the plurality of slave processors, releases a reset signal to the plurality of slave processors respectively to control the startup of the plurality of slave processors, and reads the second boot firmware and transmits the second boot firmware to the plurality of slave processors respectively to make the plurality of slave processors booted according to the received second boot firmware.

A first and a second control modules of a control apparatus of the present disclosure mutually monitor a state of the other end and send a reset request signal to a monitoring module when the other end should be reset. The monitoring module sends a reset signal to one of the first and second control modules when the monitoring module receives the reset request signal indicating that the one of the first and second control modules should be reset from the other and the monitoring module does not send the reset signal to the other. The monitoring module prohibits a reset of one of the first and second control modules when the monitoring module receives the reset request signal indicating that the one of the first and second control modules should be reset from the other and the monitoring module sends the reset signal to the other.