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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2002
Andrew Moy, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and program for performing initialization operations in a system including a bus, bus interface and at least one bus device communicating on the bus. The bus interface includes memory capable of being accessed over the bus by the at least one bus device. All bus devices capable of communicating on the bus are detected and each detected bus device and bus interface is configured with base addresses that enable transmission of Input/Output (I/O) requests over the bus to the memory in the bus interface and memory in any bus device including memory accessible over the bus. Testing is performed on the base addresses of the memory in each bus device including memory accessible over the bus by issuing I/O requests to the base addresses of the memory in each bus device. Memory in the bus interface is tested by issuing I/O requests to the base addresses of the memory in the bus interface over the bus.