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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2013
American Megatrends, Inc., Norcross, GA (US);
Sanjoy Maity, Snellville, GA (US);
Baskar Parthiban, Johns Creek, GA (US);
Satheesh Thomas, Norcross, GA (US);
Purandhar Nallagatla, Johns Creek, GA (US);
Ramakoti Reddy Bhimanadhuni, Suwanee, GA (US);
Harikrishna Doppalapudi, Norcross, GA (US);
AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC., Norcross, GA (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects direct to systems and methods of BIOS failover update with a service processor (SP) having direct serial peripheral interface (SPI) access to a basic input/output system (BIOS) chip of a host computer. In certain embodiments, the SP receives a failover backup image from a BIOS being executed at a CPU of the host computer through a system interface, and stores the failover backup image in the volatile memory. Then the SP monitors operation of the BIOS by receiving, from the BIOS, a notification signal. When the SP detects an error in the operation of the BIOS based on the notification signal, the SP sends a copy of the failover backup image to the BIOS chip of the host computer through the SPI to replace a current BIOS image stored in the BIOS chip of the host computer with the copy of the failover backup image.
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