CONTROL OF DEDICATED NON-VOLATILE ARRAYS FOR SPECIFIC FUNCTION AVAILABILITY

摘要

A device's configuration is controlled through control of its pre-boot process. Protected non-volatile logic element arrays store (2102) a machine state configuration of a processing device configured to backup data from volatile storage elements in a plurality of non-volatile logic element arrays. The machine state configuration is read (2104) in response to the processing device's entering a pre-boot process. The processing device's configuration is then set (2106) to the machine state configuration. This setting of the device configuration can be done by receiving instructions from the protected non-volatile logic element arrays to direct an order in which data for individual device functions are restored from non-volatile logic element arrays in response to the processing device's entering a wakeup or recovery mode. In one approach, the instructions arrange (2108) configuration bits that direct operation of a non- volatile logic controller during the wakeup or recovery mode to control the order of data restoration.