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App. No. 16/814,600

DYNAMICALLY DETERMINED BIOS PROFILES

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16/814,600
Abstract

An information handling system may include a management controller configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system; and a basic input/output system (BIOS) configured to initialize information handling resources of the information handling system. The management controller may be configured to: receive a user indication of a desired workload for the information handling system, wherein the desired workload corresponds to a desired BIOS profile that comprises a plurality of settings for BIOS parameters; and cause the BIOS to erase a current BIOS profile and apply the desired BIOS profile.

Claims (32)

1 . An information handling system comprising:

a management controller configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system; and

a basic input/output system (BIOS) configured to initialize information handling resources of the information handling system;

wherein the management controller is configured to:

receive a user indication of a desired workload for the information handling system, wherein the desired workload corresponds to a desired BIOS profile that comprises a plurality of settings for BIOS parameters; and

cause the BIOS to erase a current BIOS profile and apply the desired BIOS profile.

2 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the BIOS is a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS.

3 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the management controller is further configured to select the desired BIOS profile from a group of potential BIOS profiles based on the desired workload.

4 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the management controller is further configured to derive the desired BIOS profile by modifying a master BIOS profile based on the desired workload.

5 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the management controller is further configured to receive, from the BIOS, an indication of the current BIOS profile.

6 . The information handling system of claim 5 , wherein the management controller is configured to cause the BIOS to erase the current BIOS profile and apply the desired BIOS profile in response to the current BIOS profile being different from the desired BIOS profile.

7 . The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the management controller is configured to cause the BIOS to erase the current BIOS profile and apply the desired BIOS profile via a shared-memory architecture (SMA) command.

8 . A method comprising:

in an information handling system comprising a management controller configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system and a basic input/output system (BIOS) configured to initialize information handling resources of the information handling system:

the management controller receiving a user indication of a desired workload for the information handling system, wherein the desired workload corresponds to a desired BIOS profile that comprises a plurality of settings for BIOS parameters; and

the management controller causing the BIOS to erase a current BIOS profile and apply the desired BIOS profile.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the management controller is configured to receive the user indication via an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) communication.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the BIOS is a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS.

11 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising the management controller selecting the desired BIOS profile from a group of potential BIOS profiles based on the desired workload.

12 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising the management controller deriving the desired BIOS profile by modifying a master BIOS profile based on the desired workload.

13 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

the management controller receiving from the BIOS, an indication of the current BIOS profile; and

causing the BIOS to erase the current BIOS profile and apply the desired BIOS profile in response to the current BIOS profile being different from the desired BIOS profile.

14 . An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory, computer-readable medium having computer-executable code thereon that is executable by a processor of a management controller of an information handling system for:

receiving a user indication of a desired workload for the information handling system, wherein the desired workload corresponds to a desired profile for a basic input/output system (BIOS), the desired BIOS profile comprising a plurality of settings for BIOS parameters; and

causing the BIOS to erase a current BIOS profile and apply the desired BIOS profile.

15 . The article of claim 14 , wherein the BIOS is a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS.

16 . The article of claim 14 , wherein the code is further executable for selecting the desired BIOS profile from a group of potential BIOS profiles based on the desired workload.

17 . The article of claim 14 , wherein the code is further executable for deriving the desired BIOS profile by modifying a master BIOS profile based on the desired workload.

18 . The article of claim 14 , wherein the code is further executable for receiving, from the BIOS, an indication of the current BIOS profile.

19 . The article of claim 18 , wherein the code is further executable for causing the BIOS to erase the current BIOS profile and apply the desired BIOS profile in response to the current BIOS profile being different from the desired BIOS profile.

20 . The article of claim 14 , wherein the code is further executable for causing the BIOS to erase the current BIOS profile and apply the desired BIOS profile via a shared-memory architecture (SMA) command.

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