Dell Products Inc.

Gowtham Moorthy

Shekar Babu Suryanarayana

Annappa Kumar Mn

Karunakar Poosapalli

Shekar Babu S

Ranjan Kumar

Piyush Dhamdhere

A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS, the distributed BIOS including a BIOS component and a BIOS variable; identifying a processor environment installed on an information handling system from a plurality of processor environments; and, performing a BIOS component memory address tracking operation, the BIOS component memory address tracking operation tracking a system memory physical address of the BIOS component.

Embedded payload metadata signatures for tracking dispersed basic input output system components during operating system and pre-boot operations

A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS, the distributed BIOS including a BIOS component and a BIOS variable; identifying a processor environment installed on an information handling system from a plurality of processor environments; selecting a particular BIOS component based upon the processor environment installed on the information handling system; generating a particular BIOS variable based upon the processor environment installed on the information handling system; and, loading the particular BIOS component and particular BIOS variable on the information handling system, the loading being seamless regardless of the processor environment installed on the information handling system.

Processor environment agnostic distributed basic input output system component management

A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS, the distributed BIOS including a BIOS component and a BIOS variable; identifying a processor environment installed on an information handling system from a plurality of processor environments; performing a firmware key management operation, the firmware key management operation managing a key when performing a distributed firmware management operation.

Embedded controller based NVMe key management service

An information handling system includes a flash memory having a basic input/output system (BIOS) firmware image having a modular file structure and a segment offset table that identifies offsets of a first set of modules including the firmware image. The system collects a second set of modules from a BIOS firmware update payload and maps the second set of modules to the first set of modules in the flash memory. The system also updates the BIOS firmware image with the second set of modules based on the offsets in the segment offset table.

Modern scalable flash firmware architecture

An information handling system may include a processor and first non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a basic input/output system (BIOS) core comprising BIOS core firmware sufficient to execute features of a BIOS of the information handling system to a particular portion of BIOS execution and an extension agent configured to identify and enumerate a firmware volume of a second non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a BIOS extension comprising BIOS extension firmware for executing completion of BIOS execution from the particular portion of BIOS execution.

System on a chip-agnostic dynamic firmware volumes for basic input/output extension

An information handling system includes a memory manager that may detect corruption of a non-volatile random-access memory, and perform a recovery process of the non-volatile random-access memory that includes determining whether a header of the non-volatile random-access memory is corrupted. If the header is not corrupted, then a data region associated with the header may be recovered from recovery data values in a spare store in the non-volatile random-access memory. If the header is corrupted, then the header and the data region may be recovered from default data values.

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