PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT BUS DETECTION IN LOGICALLY PARTITIONED COMPUTER SYSTEM INVOLVING AUTHORIZING GUEST OPERATING SYSTEM TO CONDUCT CONFIGURATION INPUT-OUTPUT OPERATION WITH FUNCTIONS OF PCI DEVICES

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PATENT NO 6820164
APP PUB NO 20020152334A1
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09836692

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A method, which may be embodied upon a computer readable medium and executed by a processor, for detecting PCI buses in a logically partitioned system. The method may include determining PCI buses that are accessible to a guest operating system via querying a hypervisor, generating a PCI controller list, wherein a PCI controller exists for each determined PCI bus, and constructing a PCI bus structure for each PCI controller in the PCI controller list. The method may further include calling a platform dependent device detection code to detect PCI devices accessible to the logically partitioned system, and connecting to each function of each detected PCI device to authorize the guest operating system to conduct configuration IO operations thereon through a platform dependent code operation.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Holm, Wayne Gustav Rochester, MN 3 124
Holtorf, Robert Lowell Rochester, MN 3 124
Nordstrom, Gregory Michael Pine Island, MN 42 1211
Trautman, Allan Henry Oronoco, MN 3 124

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