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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2007
Eugene Cohen, Eagle, ID (US);
Brian Hoffmann, Boise, ID (US);
Chris Lee, Boise, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A firmware bundle is download to a non-operational storage area without changing a live copy of firmware in a device. The firmware bundle is downloaded in order to reboot the device to deploy one or more downloaded firmware packages from the non-operational storage area to the device, launch an Early Boot Installer manager to spawn and monitor the status of one or more Early Boot Installer processes contained in the firmware bundle download, determine in parallel whether a firmware install to one or more subsystems of the device is desire, and install the downloaded firmware package in parallel to one or more subsystems of the device.