Patent ID: 8037333

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: a processing system configured to operate using a power system configured to power a shared resource of the processing system and a non-shared resource of the processing system; a low-power processing system configured to access the shared resource of the processing system during operation of the low-power processing system, wherein the operation of the low-power processing system is separate from the operation of the processing system; a chipset including a processor of the processing system and operable to be enabled during operation of the processing system, wherein the processor is configured to be disabled during operation of the low-power processing system; a first subgroup of power rails configured to be enabled during use of the processing system to power the shared resource and the non-shared resource of the processing system; and a second subgroup of power rails configured to be enabled during use of the low-power processing system to power the shared resource of the processing system, and to further power a shared resource and a non-shared resource of the low-power processing system.