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US 2014/0195763 A1Published application
Hardware and file system agnostic mechanism for achieving capsule support
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMichael A. Rothman, Vincent J. Zimmer
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus relating to a hardware and file system agnostic mechanism for achieving capsule support are described. In one embodiment, content associate with a capsule are stored in a non-volatile memory prior to a cold reset. A capsule descriptor may also be constructed, prior to the reset, which includes information about the physical location of the capsule content on the non-volatile memory. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims10
An apparatus comprising:
- non-volatile (NV) memory to store content corresponding to a capsule;
- and
- a processor, coupled to the non-volatile memory, to:
- detect a capsule update request;
- store the content corresponding to the capsule in the non-volatile memory;
- and
- define a capsule variable for a capsule descriptor to comprise a list of one or more physical locations of the content corresponding to the capsule stored on the non-volatile memory;
- and
- define an NV attribute to indicate whether the capsule variable is to survive a platform reset.
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