Containerized metadata with UEFI firmware file system
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsShekar Babu Suryanarayana, Vivek Viswanathan Iyer
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Abstract
An information handling system may include a plurality of information handling resources comprising firmware elements; at least one processor; and a computer-readable medium having instructions thereon that are executable by the at least one processor for: storing metadata associated with data that is stored in the plurality of firmware elements of the information handling system; and implementing a single filesystem configured to allow unified access to the data via the metadata.
Claims18
An information handling system comprising:
- a plurality of information handling resources comprising firmware elements, wherein at least one of the firmware elements is a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware, and wherein another one of the firmware elements is a device firmware for an information handling resource;
- at least one processor;
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- a computer-readable medium having instructions thereon that are executable by the at least one processor for:
- storing metadata associated with data that is stored in the plurality of firmware elements of the information handling system;
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- implementing a single filesystem configured to allow unified access to the data via the metadata.
A method comprising:
- an information handling system that includes a plurality of information handling resources comprising firmware elements storing metadata associated with data that is stored in the plurality of firmware elements, wherein at least one of the firmware elements is a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware, and wherein another one of the firmware elements is a device firmware for an information handling resource;
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- the information handling system implementing a single filesystem configured to allow unified access to the data via the metadata.
An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory, computer-readable medium having computer-executable code thereon that is executable by a processor of an information handling system for:
- storing metadata associated with data that is stored in a plurality of firmware elements of the information handling system, wherein at least one of the firmware elements is a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware, and wherein another one of the firmware elements is a device firmware for an information handling resource;
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- implementing a single filesystem configured to allow unified access to the data via the metadata.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.