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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Chelsio Communications, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mahendra Boopathy Ramanujam, Chennai, IN;
Assignee:
Chelsio Communications, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4416 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01);
Abstract
A converged network adapter card utilizes a single option ROM to support configuring and booting the protocols of the multifunction converged network adapter. In one embodiment the single option ROM stores a sequence of images to: 1) support configuring and booting the network interface card (NIC) and storage protocols supported by the converged network adapter card and 2) support all of the boot solutions for the converged network adapter card.