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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vinay Raghav, Folsom, CA (US);
David J. Harriman, Portland, OR (US);
Utkarsh Y. Kakaiya, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A device includes a plurality of ports and a plurality of capability registers that correspond to a respective one of the plurality of ports. The device is to connect to one or more processors of a host device through the plurality of ports, and each of the plurality of ports comprises a respective protocol stack to support a respective link between the corresponding port and the host device according to a particular interconnect protocol. Each of the plurality of capability registers comprises a respective set of fields for use in configuration of the link between its corresponding port and one of the one or more processors of the host device. The fields include a field to indicate an association between the port and a particular processor, a field to indicate a port identifier for the port, and a field to indicate a total number of ports of the device.