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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4401 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for preconfiguring hardware prior to BIOS boot up, and in particular, accessing a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) feature descriptor in the BIOS read only memory area, the BIOS feature descriptor comprising information associated with a BIOS of the server; and utilizing the BIOS feature descriptor, prior to boot up operations of the server, to configure hardware of the server.