System and method for facilitating use of commodity I/O components in a legacy hardware system
US6789133B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 28, 2001 |
| Grant date | Sep 7, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 15, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/0685
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for processing I/O requests in a computing system. I/O packets are created via an operating system associated with the computing system, where the I/O packets include I/O transaction information. The I/O packets are made accessible to an I/O system. A command for a channel type connecting a target I/O component to the I/O system is constructed, where this command construction is based on the I/O transaction information provided in the I/O packet, and based on physical aspects of the target I/O component and channel type provided independently of the I/O packet. The constructed command is issued to the target I/O component in accordance with the channel type.
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