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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2011
Bryan E. Veal, Beaverton, OR (US);
Eric R. Wehage, Tenino, WA (US);
Annie Foong, Aloha, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques and mechanisms for managing resources of an aggregate device which spans multiple physical devices of a computer platform. In an embodiment, an aggregation device coupled to a host bus of the computer platform receives resource information generated by a pre-boot software process of the computer platform. In another embodiment, the aggregation device, based on the received resource information, represents a resource in a first input/output (I/O) device to a host operating system (OS) as residing in the aggregation device, the first I/O device coupled to the aggregation device via a host bus for exchanging communications referencing a shared address space.