Patent ID: 11874787
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the compute platform includes a plurality of controller hubs and the plurality of CPUs include a CPU with bootable logic that is coupled to the firmware storage device and coupled to a first controller hub, further comprising:
configuring each of the plurality of controller hubs including the first controller hub to operate as an IO-expander;
booting the platform by accessing the platform firmware stored in the firmware storage device via the CPU with bootable logic;
booting the first controller hub; and
coordinating booting of each of the IO-expanders other than the first controller hub via handshake signals sent between the first controller hub and the platform control entity and handshake signals sent between the platform control entity and each of those IO-expanders.