SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPORTING AIR MOVER EVENTS TO AN OPERATING SYSTEM DURING OPERATING SYSTEM RUNTIME

• US 20150220088A1
• Filed: 02/03/2014
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Joshi, Anand, Samuel, Balasingh
• Granted Patent: US 9,934,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/00 Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0706 the processing taking place on a specific hardware platform or in a specific software environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0784 Routing of error reports, e.g. with a specific transmission path or data flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a controller, a driver, and a basic/input output system. The controller may be associated with an air mover and configured to generate an interrupt responsive to an event associated with the air mover. The driver may be embodied in an operating system configured for execution on the processor, the driver configured to, during a runtime execution of the operating system in which the event occurred, receive at least one of the interrupt from the controller or an indication of the interrupt from a basic input/output system. The basic input/output system may comprise a program of instructions executable by the processor and configured to cause the processor to, responsive to the event, receive air mover data from the air mover, and communicate the air mover data to the driver.

Claims

1. An information handling system comprising:

a processor;

a controller associated with an air mover, the controller configured to generate an interrupt responsive to an event associated with the air mover;

a driver embodied in an operating system configured for execution on the processor, the driver configured to, during a runtime execution of the operating system in which the event occurred, receive at least one of the interrupt from the controller or an indication of the interrupt from a basic input/output system;

the basic input/output system comprising a program of instructions executable by the processor and configured to cause the processor to;

responsive to the event, receive air mover data from the air mover; and

communicate the air mover data to the driver.

2. The information handling system of claim 1, wherein the driver is configured to receive the interrupt from the controller, and the interrupt comprises a system control interrupt.

3. The information handling system of claim 1, wherein the driver is configured to receive the indication or the interrupt from the basic input/output system, and the indication comprises a Windows Management Instrumentation event.

4. The information handling system of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to generate an interrupt responsive to the event and communicate the interrupt to the basic input/output system.

5. The information handling system of claim 4, wherein the interrupt is an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface interrupt.

6. The information handling system of claim 1, further comprising an application configured to execute on the operating system, wherein the application is configured to receive air mover data from the driver.

7. The information handling system of claim 1, wherein the application is further configured to take an action in response to the event and based on the air mover data.

8. The information handling system of claim 1, wherein the basic input/output system is further configured to store the air mover data in a memory associated with the basic input/output system.

9. The information handling system of claim 8, wherein the memory is a System Management Basic Input/Output System memory.

10. The information handling system of claim 8, further comprising an application configured to execute on the operating system, wherein the application is configured to receive air mover data from the memory.

11. A method comprising:

generating, by a controller associated with an air mover integral to an information handling system, an interrupt responsive to an event associated with the air mover;

receiving, by a driver embodied in an operating system configured for execution on a processor of the information handling system, at least one of the interrupt from the controller or an indication of the interrupt from a basic input/output system during a runtime execution of the operating system in which the event occurred;

receiving, by the basic input/output system, air mover data responsive to the event; and

communicating the air mover data to the driver from the basic input/output system.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the method comprises receiving the interrupt from the controller, and the interrupt comprises a system control interrupt.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the method comprises receiving the indication or the interrupt from the basic input/output system, and the indication comprises a Windows Management Instrumentation event.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising communicating the interrupt to the basic input/output system from the controller.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the interrupt is an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface interrupt.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising executing an application on the operating system, wherein the application is configured to receive air mover data from the driver.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the application is further configured to take an action in response to the event and based on the air mover data.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising storing, by the basic input/output system, the air mover data in a memory associated with the basic input/output system.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the memory is a System Management Basic Input/Output System memory.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising executing an application on the operating system, wherein the application is configured to receive air mover data from the memory.