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Virtualization of vendor specific network interfaces of self-virtualizing input/output device virtual functions

US8561065B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

James B. Cunningham · Austin, US
Baltazar De Leon, III · Austin, US
Charles S. Graham · Rochester, US
Brian King · Rochester, US
Andrew T. Koch · Rochester, US
Kyle A. Lucke · Rochester, US
Kristopher C. Whitney · Rochester, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 15, 2010
Grant date	Oct 15, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 16, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2009/45579
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A vendor independent partition interface between a logical partition and an adjunct partition associated with a self-virtualizing IO resource is used to effectively abstract away vender-specific interface details for the self-virtualizing IO resource. By doing so, vender-specific implementation details may be isolated from the operating systems resident in logical partitions, thus requiring only changes in vendor specific firmware in order to support new or revised self-virtualizing IO resources.

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