Intel Corporation

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Andy Miga

Vincent J Zimmer

Michael A Rothman

Mark Doran

Sham M Datta

Hung T Tran

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.

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

Methods and apparatus to protect a protocol interface are described herein. In an example method, a driver request is received during an operation phase of firmware in a processor system. The driver request may be identified as a request associated with a violating condition of the protocol interface. Accordingly, the driver request is rejected.

Methods and apparatus to protect a protocol interface

Methods and apparatus to reinitiate failed processors in multiple-processor systems are described herein. In an example method, a failure associated with a first processor of a plurality of processors in a multiple-processor system is detected by a second processor of the plurality of processors. In response to detection of the failure associated with the first processor, the second processor restores the first processor.

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Andy Miga