Pushing capabilities into firmware by an operating system

Details Pushing capabilities into firmware by an operating system Pushing capabilities into firmware by an operating system

2007-02-27

2007-02-27

Elamin, A. (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

Loading initialization program

C713S001000, C711S113000, C710S008000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10748458

ABSTRACT:
A method and system to push capabilities into firmware by an operating system. A pre-boot driver is accessed at a computer system during operating system runtime of the computer system. The pre-boot driver is deposited in a repository available to firmware of the computer system. The pre-boot driver is found at the repository by the firmware during a subsequent pre-boot phase of the computer system. The pre-boot driver is executed during the subsequent pre-boot phase. In one embodiment, the computer system includes firmware that operates in accordance with the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) framework standard.

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