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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Balasingh P. Samuel, Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael W. Arms, Copperas Cove, TX (US);
Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method may include, during a PEI phase BIOS, responsive to a flag being set in a previous boot session of an information handling system to test a first designated region of a memory of the information handling system: testing the first designated region for a memory fault; in response to detecting the memory fault, mapping out the first designated region and designating an additional region of the memory as a designated region for SMRAM and repeating testing of additional designated regions, mapping out of failed additional designated regions, and designating new additional regions of the memory until a designated region passes testing without memory fault; and in response to detecting passage of testing without memory fault of a designated region comprising either of the first designated region or an additional region of the memory, configuring the designated region for use as the SMRAM for the information handling system.