Patent ID: 9747116
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with a system firmware (SFW) instance comprising instructions executable by a first logical processor of a first blade device of a blade system to: access partition configuration information for a partition of the blade system, the partition to execute an operating system (OS) and including the first blade device and a second blade device including a second logical processor, wherein the first and second logical processors are to operate as part of different SFW domains; identify, to the second blade device, available memory of the first blade device associated with the first logical processor, wherein the second blade device is to make the identified memory of the first blade device available for use by the OS; and in response to a determination that the partition configuration information indicates that the first blade device is an expansion blade device, place the first logical processor a SFW execution mode in which the first logical processor is to execute instructions of the SFW instance while the OS is executed by at least the second logical processor.