The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
May. 21, 2012
Shiva R. Dasari, Austin, TX (US);
Raghuswamyreddy Gundam, Austin, TX (US);
Newton P. Liu, Austin, TX (US);
Douglas W. Oliver, Round Rock, TX (US);
Terence Rodrigues, Austin, TX (US);
Mehul M. Shah, Austin, TX (US);
Wingcheung Tam, Austin, TX (US);
Shiva R. Dasari, Austin, TX (US);
Raghuswamyreddy Gundam, Austin, TX (US);
Newton P. Liu, Austin, TX (US);
Douglas W. Oliver, Round Rock, TX (US);
Terence Rodrigues, Austin, TX (US);
Mehul M. Shah, Austin, TX (US);
Wingcheung Tam, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Intelligently loading legacy option ROMs in a computing system, including: generating, by a legacy option ROM manager, an inventory for the computing system, wherein the inventory for the computing system identifies one or more devices in the computing system; determining, by the legacy option ROM manager for each option ROM available for loading, whether a device supported by the option ROM is included in the inventory for the computing system; responsive to determining that the device supported by the option ROM is not included in the inventory for the computing system, preventing the option ROM from being loaded into an option ROM address space; and responsive to determining that the device supported by the option ROM is included in the inventory for the computing system, enabling the option ROM to be loaded into the option ROM address space.