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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1996
Sung-Soo Cho, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chao-Hsin Chi, San Jose, CA (US);
David Chang, Daly City, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system has a first bus, a first bus bridge, and a second bus bridge. The first bridge connects the first bus to a second bus and the second bridge connects the first bus to a third bus. Normally, the first bridge behaves as the only subtractive decode agent on the first bus, claiming all transactions initiated on the first bus that target agents on the second bus or the third bus. If the first bridge claims a transaction targetting an agent on the third bus, the first bridge transfers the responsibility to respond to the transaction to the second bridge. The first bridge does not behave as the subtractive decode agent on the first bus when transactions are initiated on the second bus and forwarded to the first bus. In that case, the second bridge behaves as the subtractive decode agent on the first bus.