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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
May. 01, 2019
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Anh Dinh Luong, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method is provided to generate a configuration descriptor for a chipset in a computing unit. The method includes determining, by one or more processors, a plurality of desired interface configurations for the chipset and for each of the one or more desired interface configurations, determining one or more ports of the chipset and corresponding platform connectors that satisfy features of the each of the one or more of the desired interface configurations based on a chipset description and a platform description. The method further includes assigning a port from among the determined one or more ports to the each of the one or more of the desired interface configurations and generating a chipset configuration descriptor based on the assigning of ports to each of the one or more desired interface configurations. In some embodiments, the chipset is initialized based on the configuration descriptor.