Patent ID: 11922174
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
during a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) pre-boot operation:
establishing a communication channel between a management controller of an information handling system and a UEFI of the information handling system;
requesting a driver associated with an operation to be performed in the UEFI;
providing, by the management controller, a memory path associated with the requested driver;
based on the memory path, receiving the requested driver from a memory associated with the UEFI;
loading the requested driver;
executing, by the UEFI, the loaded requested driver;
providing an execution status for the executed driver to the management controller;
determining whether the executed driver will be needed later in the pre-boot operation; and
in response to the executed driver no longer being needed, unloading the executed driver from the UEFI.