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

Claim 12:
13. The compute platform of claim 10, wherein the platform includes a firmware storage device in which platform firmware is stored, a plurality of CPUs, and a plurality of controller hubs, wherein one of the plurality of CPUs includes bootable logic and is coupled to the firmware storage device and coupled to a first controller hub, wherein each of the plurality of controller hubs including the first controller hub is configured as an IO-expander, and wherein the compute platform is further configured to:
boot by accessing the platform firmware stored in the firmware storage device via the CPU with bootable logic;
boot the first controller hub; and
coordinate 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.