18498360. RAS OFFLOAD PPR REQUEST SYSTEM (Dell Products L.P.)
RAS OFFLOAD PPR REQUEST SYSTEM
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Ching-Lung Chao of Austin TX US
RAS OFFLOAD PPR REQUEST SYSTEM
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18498360 titled 'RAS OFFLOAD PPR REQUEST SYSTEM
Original Abstract Submitted
A Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) offload Post-Package Repair (PPR) request system includes a memory system coupled to a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) device and a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) subsystem. The BMC device identifies an error in the memory system, retrieves error information associated with the error, uses the error information to generate a Post-Package Repair (PPR) request, and stores the PPR request in a BMC database provided in the BMC device. During an initialization process that occurs subsequent to storing the PPR request in the BMC database, the BMC device retrieves the PPR request and stores it in a shared buffer subsystem. During the initialization process, the BIOS retrieves the PPR request from the shared buffer subsystem, stores the PPR request in a BIOS database provided in the BIOS subsystem, and performs PPR operations on the memory system based on the PPR request stored in the BIOS database.