公开(公告)号：US20170351502A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-07

申请号：US15209476

申请日：2016-07-13

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Nivedita Aggarwal ,  Reuven Rozic ,  Amir Levy ,  Chia-Hung Kuo

IPC: G06F9/445 ,  G06F13/42

CPC classification number: G06F13/4282 ,  G06F9/4411

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate communication with electronic devices supported by an interface specification and electronic devices unsupported by the interface specification. An example apparatus includes a first firmware interface to facilitate communication between an operating system and a first electronic device, the first electronic device supported in an interface specification. The example apparatus includes a second firmware interface instantiated to facilitate communication with a second electronic device that is not supported in the interface specification, the second firmware interface configured to communicate with the first firmware interface to route communication between the operating system and the second electronic device via the first firmware interface and the second firmware interface.