Method and apparatus for delivering device drivers

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

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C713S002000, C713S100000, C719S310000, C719S327000, C710S008000, C710S010000

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07444503

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for delivering a device driver to an operating system without user intervention. One or more operating systems (e.g., different operating system programs, different versions of one operating system) execute on a computer platform. During booting of an operating system a device is identified for which a driver is needed. The driver is requested from a service processor of the platform, which includes memory or storage for storing multiple device drivers (or multiple versions of one driver, for different operating systems). The driver is retrieved from the service processor's storage and delivered to the operating system.

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