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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2003
Applicants:
Lechong Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Lei Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Xiang MA, Shanghai, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to operate in multiple phases of a basic input/output system (BIOS) are described herein. In an example method, an initialization driver retrieves resources associated with a plurality of phases of the BIOS from an initialization library to initialize a platform. Based on the resources, the initialization driver is executed in a first phase and a second phase of the BIOS.