System and method for making BIOS routine calls from different hardware partitions

摘要

The specification may disclose systems and related methods for ensuring that as between two partitions in a computer system, each partition using a separate operating system, calls to basic input output system (BIOS) routines are managed in such a way that only one instance of a BIOS routine is allowed to execute within the computer system at any one time. The systems and methods may accomplish this task by implementing an abstraction program through which the various operating systems may call BIOS routines, the abstraction program implementing the desired functionality.