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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2018
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Alberto David Perez Guevara, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Jeffrey L. Kennedy, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An automated device discovery system includes a chassis defining device slots, with device connectors located adjacent each of the device slots. A bus subsystem and a reset subsystem are coupled to the device connectors. A processing system, which is coupled to each of the at least one bus system and the reset subsystem, causes the reset subsystem to sequentially assert reset instructions through each of the device connectors in a device slot sequence. The processing system then sequentially detects, via bus paths in the bus subsystem, each device that is located in one the device slots and coupled to its respective device connector based on reset operations performed by that device in response to the sequentially asserted reset instructions. The processing system then maps each device that was detected with a respective device slot identifier that corresponds to the device slot sequence in which the reset instructions were asserted.