Patent ID: 8010838
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method to respond to a hardware interface error on a system bus, the method comprising: receiving, by a service processor, an error on the system bus, the error identifying at least one first field replaceable unit; inhibiting, by the service processor, the suppression of clock signal to the at least one first field replaceable unit; adding, by the service processor, an identifier of the at least one first field replaceable unit to an eligible Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) list; responsive to the at least one first field replaceable unit being dependent on a supporting field replaceable unit, adding, by the service processor, at least the supporting field replaceable unit to the eligible FRU list; suppressing, by the service processor, the clock signal to the at least one first field replaceable unit; and inhibiting tagging the at least one first field replaceable unit as unusable, by the service processor, for next initial program load.