Method and apparatus for EFI BIOS time-slicing at OS runtime

Details Method and apparatus for EFI BIOS time-slicing at OS runtime Method and apparatus for EFI BIOS time-slicing at OS runtime

2006-05-31

2010-10-19

Lee, Thomas (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

Loading initialization program

C713S001000, C713S100000, C710S260000, C710S263000, C710S264000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07818558

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus is described herein for executing firmware tasks during OS runtime. A thread slices execution time among entries in a control structure, such as process control block (PCB), maintained by an OS kernel. An entry in the control structure includes a reference to a firmware task, such as a system management operation, a BIOS task, and/or and EFI task. Based on that entry, the thread allocates an amount of execution time either directly to the firmware task or to a kernel mode driver to perform the firmware task.

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