METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BOOTCODE SUPPORT IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM THAT USES A COMMUNICATIONS PORT THAT UTILIZES A FIRST COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL, AN EXTERNAL DEVICE THAT UTILIZES A SECOND COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL, AND A DEVICE DRIVER THAT IS LOADED IN RESPONSE TO BOOTING TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE EXTERNAL DEVICE THROUGH THE COMMUNICATIONS PORT

1. Technical Field A data processing system with bootcode support for communicating with a noncompliant external device has a motherboard, non-volatile memory connected to the motherboard, a volatile memory, processing resources, a communications port that utilizes a first communications protocol, a...

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Hauptverfasser:	Aguilar, Maximino, Gupta, Sanjay, Stafford, James Michael
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
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