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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2019
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Timothy M. Lambert, Austin, TX (US);
Isaac Q. Wang, Austin, TX (US);
Shawn Dube, Austin, TX (US);
Johan Rahardjo, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for receiving a request to switch a mode of an information handling system (IHS) from a multi-socket mode to a multi-single socket mode; in response to receiving the request, placing each socket of the IHS in an auxiliary power state independent of each other; after placing each socket of the IHS in the auxiliary power state, altering parameters of the sockets of the IHS, including: altering CPU straps, power sequencing, reset sequencing, and bus re-direction associated with one or more of the sockets of the IHS; and in response to altering the parameters of the sockets of the IHS, switching the mode of the IHS from the multi-socket mode to the multi-single socket mode such that a processor for each socket is a bootstrap processor.