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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2004
Yu-cheng Hsu, Tucson, AZ (US);
John Norbert Mccauley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Cheng-chung Song, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Griswold Sherman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Yu-Cheng Hsu, Tucson, AZ (US);
John Norbert McCauley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Cheng-Chung Song, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Griswold Sherman, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A determination is made as to whether a configuration indicator associated with a resource indicates a delayed configuration of the resource, wherein the resource is shared by a plurality of processing complexes via a bus, and wherein if the delayed configuration of the resource is indicated then the resource is prevented from being configured during initial program loads of the plurality of processing complexes. The resource is configured by only one of the of plurality of processing complexes that shares the resource, in response to determining that the configuration indicator associated with the resource indicates the delayed configuration of the resource.