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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andrew Currid, Alameda, CA (US);
Franck Diard, Saint Contest, FR;
Chenghuan Jia, Fremont, CA (US);
Parag Kulkarni, Pune, IN;
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A device for processing graphics data includes a plurality of graphics processing units. Each graphics processing unit may correspond to a virtualized operating system. Each graphics processing unit may include a configuration register indicating a 3D class code and a command register indicating that I/O cycle decoding is disabled. The device may be configured to transmit a configuration register value to a virtualized operating system indicating a VGA-compatible class code. The device may be configured to transmit a command register value to the virtualized operating system that indicates that I/O cycle decoding is enabled. In this manner, legacy bus architecture of the device may not limit the number of graphics processing units deployed in the device.