Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Ming Chang Hung

Kang-Ning Feng

Yi-Fan Hsia

Hung Lung Chen

John D Roche

Heng-Fu Chang

Shih-Ding Lee

Yun-Chu Chen

Fu-Jyu Guo

Nathan Edward Kofahl

Example computing device that may be implemented to report application status via platform binary tables are disclosed. In response to an upgrade log detected during a BIOS initialization, a platform binary table to a management agent stored in a memory is generated. An application status corresponding with the upgrade log is collected during the BIOS initialization. In response to an operating system initialization, the management agent is launched from the platform binary table to report the application status via the management agent. The upgrade log is removed.

Application status reporting via platform binary tables

In some examples, a computing device comprises a processing resource and a memory resource storing instructions to cause the processing resource to detect, by a basic input/output system (BIOS) of the computing device, firmware corruption in a firmware component of the computing device, generate a recovery agent based on the detected firmware corruption of the firmware component, determine a location of a back-up image of the firmware component based on the generated recovery agent, determine recovery sequence based on the determination of the location of the back-up image of the firmware component; and recover the firmware of the firmware component by executing the determined recovery sequence.

Firmware corruption recovery

In an example, a computing device includes a non-volatile storage device to store a basic input/output system (BIOS) variable. Further, the computing device includes a BIOS. During a boot process of the computing devices, the BIOS may read the BIOS variable from the non-volatile storage device. Further, the BIOS may detect that an application is to be deployed in the computing device based on the BIOS variable. Furthermore, the BIOS may load an application package from the non-volatile storage device into a volatile storage device and build an advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) data structure with the application package loaded in the volatile storage device. Further, the BIOS may deploy the application using the ACPI data structure.

Bios variable-based application deployments

Example implementations relate to Basic Input Output System updates. In some examples, a computing device can include a memory, a processor to, in response to completion of a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) update, generate and store a boot status variable in the memory, determine whether the BIOS update was successful, in response to the BIOS update being successful, delete the boot status variable from the memory and perform a power event, and in response to the BIOS update being unsuccessful, perform a BIOS recovery.

Basic input output system updates

In example implementations, methods to optimize a BIOS of a computer and an apparatus to perform the same is provided. The method includes detecting a change to the computer. A current BIOS configuration is compared to an optimized BIOS setting associated with the change. A setting of the current BIOS configuration is configured to match a corresponding setting of the optimized BIOS configuration. The computer is then operated with the optimized BIOS configuration associated with the change.

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