Method and apparatus for warm starting a system where the system includes region(s) of software code incapable of warm starting

摘要

This invention relates to a method and apparatus for warm starting a system where the system includes region(s) of software code incapable of warm starting. More particularly, the invention is directed to a warm starting routine that includes determining in which of a plurality of regions of the software code that the code was being executed when an initiation of a warm start routine occurred. The determination is based, in a preferred embodiment, on the status of flags associated with the regions of the software code. Based on the results of the determination, the method of the present invention proceeds in a variety of defined manners to return the system to normal operation.