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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rangasai V. Chaganty, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Vincent Zimmer, Tacoma, WA (US);
Satya P. Yarlagadda, Bangalore, IN;
Giri P. Mudusuru, Portland, OR (US);
Jiewen Yao, Shanghai, CN;
Xiang Ma, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ravi Rangarajan, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve boot efficiency. An example apparatus includes a firmware support package (FSP) configuration engine to retrieve an FSP reset (FSP-R) component from a platform memory, a firmware interface table (FIT) manager to assign an entry to a FIT for the FSP-R component and assign respective entries to the FIT for auxiliary FSP components, and an FSP configuration engine to transfer platform control to the FSP-R component to control execution of the auxiliary FSP components in response to a platform reset vector.