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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Richard Dickert Powers, Highland Village, TX (US);
Gregory Frank Albrecht, Plano, TX (US);
Richard Dickert Powers, Highland Village, TX (US);
Gregory Frank Albrecht, Plano, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
System and method of supporting virtual mappings for shared firmware contents in a computer system are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises, responsive to a function call issued by a processor, determining whether address translation has been enabled for the issuing processor; and responsive to a determination that address translation has been enabled, determining an ID of the issuing processor; identifying a Physical-to-Virtual ('PTV') Map corresponding to the issuing processor; extracting from the identified PTV map a virtual address corresponding to a physical address passed in the function call; and returning the virtual address to the issuing processor.