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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Eugen Pirvu, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Dhamim Packer Ali, San Diego, CA (US);
Benish Babu, San Diego, CA (US);
Leonard Widra, Fitchburg, WI (US);
Darshana Advani, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Various aspects include methods for implementing a reduced size firmware storage format on a computing device. Various aspects may include storing a first firmware description table to a first sector of a flash memory, in which the first firmware description table may define a first instance of a firmware including describing a first plurality of firmware images, storing the first plurality of firmware images to a first plurality of consecutive sectors, storing a second firmware description table to a second sector, in which the second firmware description table may define a second instance of the firmware including describing a second plurality of firmware images having a third plurality of firmware images, storing the third plurality of firmware images to a second plurality of consecutive sectors, and booting the computing device using the second firmware description table.