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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2015
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jayakrishna Guddeti, Bangalore, IN;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a fabric of a first communication protocol to communicate with an upstream agent in an upstream direction and to communicate with a plurality of downstream agents in a downstream direction; a switch coupled between the fabric and at least some of the plurality of downstream agents, the switch to couple to a primary interface of the fabric via a primary interface of the switch and to communicate with the fabric via the first communication protocol, the switch further including a sideband interface to interface with a sideband fabric of the first communication protocol; and the at least some downstream agents coupled to the switch via the sideband fabric, wherein the at least some downstream agents are to be enumerated with a secondary bus of a second communication protocol, and the switch device is to provide a transaction received from the upstream agent to a first downstream agent based on a bus identifier of the secondary bus with which the first downstream agent is enumerated. Other embodiments are described and claimed.