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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2017
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Daniel S. Willis, Portland, OR (US);
Anthony M. Constantine, Portland, OR (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided are an apparatus, system, and method relating to detecting, during a system boot operation, whether a device arranged to implement a first bus interface protocol is coupled to a system through a connector. A bus clock is programmed to be off in response to detection of no device implementing the first bus interface protocol being coupled to the system through the connector. After the bus clock is programmed to be off, a buffer is reprogrammed to assume that the connector implements a second bus interface protocol coupled to a storage device. After reprogramming the buffer, the apparatus, system, and method detect whether a device arranged to implement the second bus interface protocol is coupled to the connector, and the device arranged to implement the second bus interface protocol is initialized in response to detection that the device is coupled to the connector. Other embodiments are described and claimed.