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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Scott Michael Ramsey, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Wei Liu, Austin, TX (US);
David Keith Chalfant, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A hybrid firmware-first/operating-system-first error handling system includes a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) subsystem coupled to a processing system. The BIOS subsystem begins an initialization process for a computing device and, in response, configures the processing system to perform processing system firmware-first error handling operations and, for any errors that are detected during at least a portion of the initialization process, performs BIOS firmware-first error handling operations. During the initialization process, the BIOS subsystem determines that an operating system provided by the processing system is configured to perform error handling and, in response, disables the performance of processing system firmware-first error handling operations by the processing system, and instructs the operating system to perform operating-system-first error handling operations such that the operating system performs the operating-system-first error handling operations for any errors that are detected during runtime of the computing device.