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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2008
Ronald L. Billau, Rochester, MN (US);
Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);
Harvey G. Kiel, Rochester, MN (US);
Chetan Mehta, Austin, TX (US);
Jaya Srikrishnan, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Ronald L. Billau, Rochester, MN (US);
Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);
Harvey G. Kiel, Rochester, MN (US);
Chetan Mehta, Austin, TX (US);
Jaya Srikrishnan, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
At least one input/output (I/O) firmware partition is provided in a partitioned environment to facilitate access to I/O resources owned by the at least one I/O firmware partition. The I/O resources of an I/O firmware partition are shared by one or more other partitions of the environment, referred to as consumer partitions. The consumer partitions use the I/O firmware partition to access the I/O resources. Since the I/O firmware partitions are responsible for providing access to the I/O resources owned by those partitions, the consumer partitions are relieved of this task, reducing complexity and costs in the consumer partitions.