Pushing capabilities into firmware by an operating system

摘要

A method and system to push capabilities into firmware by an operating system. A pre-boot driver is accessed at a computer system during operating system runtime of the computer system. The pre-boot driver is deposited in a repository available to firmware of the computer system. The pre-boot driver is found at the repository by the firmware during a subsequent pre-boot phase of the computer system. The pre-boot driver is executed during the subsequent pre-boot phase. In one embodiment, the computer system includes firmware that operates in accordance with the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) framework standard.