Baker Botts L.L.P.
System and method of utilizing a watchdog timer
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may start a single threaded power on self test process without a periodic handler to communicate with a watchdog timer of an information handling system; may initialize the watchdog timer with an amount of time; may store the amount of time and watchdog timer access interface information via a memory medium of the information handling system; may, after storing the amount of time and the watchdog timer access interface information, boot an operating system; may provide information indicating a location of the amount of time and the watchdog timer access interface information to the operating system; and may periodically reset the watchdog timer via a device driver of the operating system.
Dell Products L.P.
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Michael Emery Wei
Brown Liu