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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2012
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Sukhinder Singh Sahota, San Jose, CA (US);
Ajitkumar A. Natarajan, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45545 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for loading device drivers are provided. A configuration space may contain a device identifier. The configuration space may be modified by replacing the device identifier with a pseudo device identifier. In one aspect the pseudo device identifier may be passed to a virtual machine. In another aspect, the pseudo device identifier may be used to load a driver.