CN108052353B - Method and equipment for improving synchronous speed of BIOS control module - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a method and equipment for improving the synchronous speed of a BIOS control module, which comprises the following steps: setting BIOS into a first type of setting and a second type of setting, wherein the first type of setting is set to be autonomously constructed by a system of the BIOS, and the second type of setting is set to be provided by a third party adapter; dividing the first type of setting and the second type of setting into a plurality of subclasses respectively, wherein each subclass corresponds to a zone bit; the control module only detects that the setting of the subclass corresponding to the set zone bit is not changed, and if the setting is changed, new setting is acquired and synchronized to the BIOS. By adopting the method of the invention, the control module can be accurately scanned and synchronized for individual subclasses during synchronization by subdividing the BIOS into a plurality of subclasses, thereby improving the synchronization efficiency of the control module and reducing the starting operation and time consumption of the system.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of BIOS, in particular to a method and equipment for improving the synchronization speed of a BIOS control module.
Background
At present, in the starting process of a server system BIOS, a control module detects whether external settings are changed, if yes, new OOB setting items are obtained and synchronized into the BIOS, and the BIOS is restarted to take effect; in this process, the control module scans all the settings of OOB for changes and performs the operations only in the later stage of the selective start-up equipment phase, which usually results in too slow a synchronization time and slow start-up time of the control module.
Aiming at the problems in the prior art, the method and the equipment for improving the synchronization speed of the BIOS control module have important significance.
Disclosure of Invention
To solve the above problems, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for increasing the synchronization speed of a BIOS control module.
In order to achieve the above object, the method for increasing the synchronization speed of the BIOS control module according to the present invention includes: setting BIOS into a first type of setting and a second type of setting, wherein the first type of setting is set to be autonomously constructed by a system of the BIOS, and the second type of setting is set to be provided by a third party adapter; dividing the first type of setting and the second type of setting into a plurality of subclasses respectively, wherein each subclass corresponds to a zone bit; the control module only detects whether the setting item of the subclass corresponding to the set zone bit is changed, if so, new setting is obtained and synchronized to the BIOS;
further, the subclass of the first type of setting specifically includes a memory, a processor, a power supply, a device, an interface, a startup item, and a system boot;
further, the subclasses of the second class setting are classified according to suppliers;
further, the obtaining new settings and synchronizing to the BIOS is further to: if the new setting obtained is the first type setting, then synchronization to the BIOS may occur late in the drive execution environment phase.
The invention also provides a device for improving the synchronous speed of the BIOS control module, which comprises: the system comprises a control module and a baseboard management controller, wherein the baseboard management controller comprises a memory module and an out-of-band data module; the memory module is used for storing BIOS settings, wherein the BIOS settings are divided into a first type of settings and a second type of settings, the first type of settings are autonomously constructed by a system of the BIOS, the second type of settings are provided by a third party adapter, the first type of settings and the second type of settings are respectively divided into a plurality of subclasses, and each subclass corresponds to a flag bit; the out-of-band data module is used for storing new settings; the control module is used for detecting the setting of the subclass corresponding to the set zone bit in the memory module and synchronizing the new setting in the out-of-band data module to the memory module;
further, the subclass of the first type of setting specifically includes a memory, a processor, a power supply, a device, an interface, a startup item, and a system boot;
further, the subclasses of the second class setting are classified by suppliers.
The invention relates to a method and equipment for improving the synchronous speed of a BIOS control module
The BIOS can be subdivided into a plurality of subclasses, so that the control module can accurately scan and synchronize individual subclasses during synchronization, the synchronization efficiency of the control module is improved, and the starting operation and the time consumption of a system are reduced.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a method for increasing the synchronization speed of a BIOS control module according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the classification of the BIOS according to the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of the device for increasing the synchronization speed of the BIOS control module according to the present invention.
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The structure, operation, and the like of the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of the method of the present invention. The invention discloses a method for improving the synchronous speed of a BIOS control module, which comprises the following steps:
s1, dividing the BIOS settings into a first type of settings and a second type of settings, wherein the first type of settings are autonomously constructed by the BIOS system, and the second type of settings are provided by a third party adapter; generally, the BIOS is configured to be built internally (represented by type 0) independently of the system of the BIOS or provided by a third party manufacturer according to a third party adapter (represented by type 1) according to various components of the electronic device where the BIOS is located, including a motherboard, a CPU, a memory, a graphics card, a display or a memory, and the like.
S2, dividing the first type setting and the second type setting into a plurality of subclasses respectively, wherein each subclass corresponds to a zone bit; as shown in fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating classification of BIOS according to the present invention. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the subclasses of the first type of setting specifically include a Memory (Memory), a Processor (Processor), a Power source (Power), Devices (Devices), an interface (IOPort), a boot entry, and a system boot (BootMode); the subclasses of the second class setting are classified by supplier.
S3, the control module (UCM) only detects that the setting of the subclass corresponding to the set flag bit is not changed, if yes, the control module acquires the new setting and synchronizes to the BIOS. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining new settings and synchronizing to the BIOS further comprises: if the new setting obtained is the first type setting, then synchronization to the BIOS may occur late in the drive execution environment phase.
The UEFI of the BIOS is divided into four phases SEC, PEI, DXE and BDS. The SEC phase is the first phase of platform initialization, and the system of the computer and other electronic equipment enters the SEC phase after being powered on or restarted; the PEI phase is used for preparing an execution environment for DXE, forming an HOB (HandaffBlock) list by information needing to be transmitted to DXE, and finally giving control right to DXE; the DXE phase executes most of the initialization work of the system, and the memory can be completely used, so that a great deal of complex work can be carried out in the DXE phase; the main function of the BDS phase is to enforce a boot policy, typically the BIOS boots the operating system and passes control to the operating system in this phase. Since the BDS phase is mainly responsible for executing the boot policy and booting the os by the BIOS and giving control to the os, but the BDS phase is very slow because of the large number of operations to be executed, the synchronization operation for the first type of setting (i.e. the setting represented by type 0) performed at the later stage of the BDS phase has a great influence on the synchronization efficiency of the control module.
In the BIOS, the setting of the system autonomous construction does not depend on the loading of a drive item, so that the synchronous operation can be executed in a DXE stage without consuming a large amount of operation; the setting provided by the third party adapter can execute the synchronous operation in the BDS phase only when the operation of the driver provided by the third party is required to be finished in the DXE phase, and cannot be executed in the DXE phase in advance; since the conventional BIOS does not distinguish and classify the settings of the system autonomous construction from those provided by the third-party adapter, and combines the settings of the system autonomous construction and the third-party adapter into a unified setting, the synchronization operation of the settings of the entire BIOS must be performed in the BDS phase, and therefore, the synchronization operation of the settings of the system autonomous construction only, i.e., the settings of the first type (i.e., the settings represented by type 0), is not performed in advance of the DXE phase, which wastes a huge amount of time and energy.
More importantly, in the synchronization operation for the setting built autonomously by the system, namely, the setting of the first type (i.e., the setting represented by type 0), in the conventional BIOS synchronization operation, since it must be performed in the BDS phase after the DXE phase, if a new setting problem or error (bug) updated in out-of-band data (OOB) is found once, it can only be reproduced by way of hardware power-off or hardware plugging, which is very cumbersome and complicated. In the present invention, when the synchronization operation of the first type of setting (i.e. the setting represented by type 0) is performed in advance to the phase of DXE, once a new setting problem or error (bug) updated in out-of-band data (OOB) is found, the synchronization operation can be directly cancelled or the setting content with the problem or error (bug) can be removed, and then the BDS phase is entered, so that the hardware power-off or the hardware plugging is no longer required to be duplicated.
In the method for improving the synchronization speed of the BIOS control module, which is provided by the invention, in the synchronization operation aiming at the setting which is independently constructed by the system, namely the first type setting (namely the setting represented by type 0), the synchronization efficiency of the control module is greatly improved, the starting time of the system is reduced, the forced power-off and plugging of hardware caused by the problem or error of the new setting updated in the out-of-band data (OOB) are avoided, and the protection and the synchronization efficiency of the hardware are undoubtedly greatly improved.
As shown in fig. 3, fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of the device for increasing the synchronization speed of the BIOS control module according to the present invention. The device for improving the synchronous speed of the BIOS control module specifically comprises: a control module 1(UCM) and a baseboard management controller 2(BMC) comprising a memory module 3 and an out-of-band data module 4; the control module 1 is electrically connected with the baseboard management controller 2, and the control module 1 is respectively electrically connected with the memory module 3 and the out-of-band data module 4. The memory module 3 is configured to store settings of the BIOS, where the settings of the BIOS are divided into a first type of settings and a second type of settings, the first type of settings are autonomously constructed by a system of the BIOS, the second type of settings are provided by a third party adapter, the first type of settings and the second type of settings are respectively divided into a plurality of subclasses, and each subclass corresponds to a flag bit; in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the subclass of the first type of setting specifically includes a memory, a processor, a power supply, a device, an interface, a startup item, and a system boot; the subclasses of the second class setting are classified by supplier.
The out-of-band data module 4 is used for storing new settings;
the control module 1 is configured to detect a setting of a subclass corresponding to a set flag bit in the memory module 3, and synchronize a new setting in the out-of-band data module 4 to the memory module; in the technical solution of the present invention, the control module 1 is configured to detect whether a setting of a subclass corresponding to a set flag bit in the memory module 3 is changed, and synchronize a new setting of the out-of-band data module 4 to the changed setting of the corresponding subclass.
The foregoing is merely illustrative of the present invention, and it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various modifications may be made without departing from the principles of the invention, and the scope of the invention is to be determined accordingly.
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1. A method for improving the synchronous speed of a BIOS control module is characterized by comprising the following steps:
setting BIOS into a first type of setting and a second type of setting, wherein the first type of setting is set to be autonomously constructed by a system of the BIOS, and the second type of setting is set to be provided by a third party adapter;
dividing the first type of setting and the second type of setting into a plurality of subclasses respectively, wherein each subclass corresponds to a zone bit;
and the control module only detects that the setting of the subclass corresponding to the set zone bit is not changed, and if the setting is changed, the control module acquires new setting and synchronizes to the BIOS.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the subclasses of the first class of setting specifically include memory, processor, power, device, interface, boot item, and system boot.
3. The method for increasing BIOS control module synchronization speed of claim 1, wherein the subclass of the second class setting is classified by vendor.
4. The method of increasing BIOS control module synchronization speed of claim 1, wherein the obtaining new settings and synchronizing to the BIOS is further: if the new setting obtained is the first type setting, then synchronization to the BIOS may occur late in the drive execution environment phase.
5. An apparatus for increasing the synchronization speed of a BIOS control module, comprising: the system comprises a control module and a baseboard management controller, wherein the baseboard management controller comprises a memory module and an out-of-band data module;
the memory module is used for storing BIOS settings, wherein the BIOS settings are divided into a first type of settings and a second type of settings, the first type of settings are autonomously constructed by a system of the BIOS, the second type of settings are provided by a third party adapter, the first type of settings and the second type of settings are respectively divided into a plurality of subclasses, and each subclass corresponds to a flag bit;
the out-of-band data module is used for storing new settings;
the control module is used for detecting the setting of the subclass corresponding to the set zone bit in the memory module and synchronizing the new setting in the out-of-band data module to the memory module.
6. The apparatus for increasing synchronous speed of a BIOS control module of claim 5 wherein the subclasses of the first class of settings specifically include memory, processor, power supply, device, interface, boot item and system boot.
7. The apparatus for increasing BIOS control module synchronization speed of claim 5, wherein the subclass of the second class setting is classified by vendor.
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