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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2008
Kirk D. Brannock, Hillsboro, OR (US);
John I. Garney, Portland, OR (US);
Richard L. Coulson, Portland, OR (US);
Kirk D. Brannock, Hillsboro, OR (US);
John I. Garney, Portland, OR (US);
Richard L. Coulson, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus and method to store initialization and configuration information is provided. The method may include storing basic input/output system (BIOS) software in a polymer memory. The method may further include copying a first portion of the BIOS software from the polymer memory to a random access memory (RAM) buffer of a memory controller, wherein the RAM buffer has a storage capacity of at least about two kilobytes (KB).