Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070162625
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Operating system that only loads specific hardware support for the booting hardware. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | US5826090 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | IBM |
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| Filing Date | October 20, 1998 |
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Excerpt
Excerpt An improved operating system for a computer provides support for specific hardware components. The operating system is loaded by first loading a base portion which initializes the operating system and determines the particular type of hardware components present. Then, appropriate software components are loaded that are specifically associated with the hardware components. The hardware components can be detected by leaving a trace in the memory device that is associated with the software component and later retrieving the trace, or by testing the computer for the hardware component. The hardware component may be a bus architecture selected from a group of bus architectures, and bus-independent interfaces are defined which are mapped to addresses in the kernel. Alternatively, the software component can include a PAL which contains specific instructions for communicating with the hardware component. The PAL is constructed from a plurality of files each associated with the hardware component. |
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Claims
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A method of delivering a device driver to an operating system executing on a computer platform, the method comprising:
during booting of the operating system, identifying a first device for which a device driver is needed;
requesting the device driver from a service processor installed on the computer platform, wherein the service processor comprises a storage configured to store one or more device drivers; and
delivering the device driver to the operating system without intervention by a user.
Relevance
The sited patent broadly describes an operating system that detects and loads hardware specific support depending on the hardware that has been detected.
The sited patent broadly describes an operating system that detects and loads hardware specific support depending on the hardware that has been detected.
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