Parallel execution of enhanced EFI based BIOS drivers on a...

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

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C713S002000, C713S100000

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10610838

ABSTRACT:
Parallel execution of peripheral drivers on a multi-processor and/or hyper-threading enabled processor is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, two peripheral drivers are executed concurrently during a boot sequence. These peripheral drivers are executed on a first and a second processor. The processors may be logical or physical processors.

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