FIRMWARE APPARATUS, DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

Various examples relate to a firmware apparatus (10), firmware device, firmware method, and computer program for a computer system (100) comprising processing circuitry (105), and to a corresponding computer system (100). The firmware apparatus (10) comprises an interface (12) for accessing function...

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Hauptverfasser: YOU, Zijian, WILLIAMS, Dan, JAYAKUMAR, Sarathy, GOPALAKRISHNAN, Karthik, KANEDA, Erik
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:Various examples relate to a firmware apparatus (10), firmware device, firmware method, and computer program for a computer system (100) comprising processing circuitry (105), and to a corresponding computer system (100). The firmware apparatus (10) comprises an interface (12) for accessing functionality of the firmware apparatus (10) from an operating system of the computer system (100). The firmware apparatus (10) comprises control circuitry (14), configured to identify one or more processing functionalities being supported by the processing circuitry (105) of the computer system (100), provide information on the one or more processing functionalities via the interface (12) to a user mode interface of the operating system of the computer system (100), and provide access to the one or more processing functionalities for application programs being executed in the operation system, the access being based on the information on the one or more processing functionalities provided to the user mode interface.