Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System control processor (SCP) boot system
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Application No.: US17064824Application Date: 2020-10-07
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Publication No.: US11221858B1Publication Date: 2022-01-11
- Inventor: Robert W. Hormuth , William Price Dawkins , Gaurav Chawla , Mark Steven Sanders , Jimmy D. Pike , Elie Jreij
- Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Round Rock
- Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Round Rock
- Agent Joseph Mencher
- Main IPC: G06F9/44
- IPC: G06F9/44 ; G06F9/4401 ; H04L29/08
Abstract:
An SCP boot system includes a chassis housing a BIOS and an SCP that presents a virtual BIOS boot media location to the BIOS. The SCP may receive a first physical boot media location from a management system and, when the SCP receives a first BIOS boot image retrieval request from the BIOS that is directed to the virtual BIOS boot media location, it retrieves a first BIOS boot image from the first physical boot media location and provides it to the BIOS. The SCP may then receive a second physical boot media location from the management system and, when the SCP subsystem receives a second BIOS boot image retrieval request from the BIOS that is directed to the virtual BIOS boot media location, it retrieves a second BIOS boot image from the second physical boot media location and provides it to the BIOS.
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