Patent ID: 8127127

Claim:
An information handling system, comprising: a system BIOS software associated with the information handling system; an embedded device, wherein the embedded device includes storage; an embedded device BIOS software associated with the embedded device, wherein the embedded device is communicatively coupled to the embedded device BIOS software; a processor coupled to the embedded device; a BIOS element coupled to the processor, wherein the BIOS element comprises the system BIOS software and the embedded device BIOS software; a memory coupled to the processor; wherein the system BIOS software cause the processor to (a) transfer the embedded device BIOS software to the memory; (b) execute a command-line protocol to transfer configuration data to the embedded device BIOS software stored in memory; and (c) execute the embedded device BIOS software stored in memory to cause the configuration data to be saved to the storage of the embedded device, wherein the configuration data is generated at a chassis management controller coupled to the information handling system.