Patent ID: 9436629
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: causing a memory controller that is streaming, via a direct memory access (DMA) operation, multiple boot images from a first memory to a second memory to execute a link-to-self effective to stall the memory controller after streaming a first one of the multiple boot images to the second memory, the second memory accessible by a host device associated with the memory controller; generating, via a processor of the host device, while the memory controller is stalled, and based on the first boot image streamed to the second memory, a descriptor for streaming a second one of the multiple boot images from the first memory to a non-contiguous memory location; and pointing, via the processor of the host device, the link-to-self descriptor to a location of the descriptor for streaming the second boot image effective to resume the memory controller to stream, based on the descriptor and via another DMA operation, the second boot image to the non-contiguous memory location.