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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2002
Jason W. Reasor, Frisco, TX (US);
Kenneth J. Geer, Auburn, CA (US);
Jason W. Reasor, Frisco, TX (US);
Kenneth J. Geer, Auburn, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A detector detects information about a firmware system. The detector includes an interface that receives a generic instruction. The generic instruction may be a function call made through an EFI shell. The detector has a controller communicatively connected to the interface. The controller receives the generic instruction and gathers information about the firmware system. Gathering information about the firmware system permits platform-specific firmware system functions to be written to the firmware system. The controller gathers information about the firmware system by accessing a data-gathering function based on the generic instruction. The controller retrieves the information through the data-gathering function and transfers the information to the interface.
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