Accessing vendor-specific drivers for configuring and accessing a self-virtualizing input/output device

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8839240
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12955698

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A vendor independent interface is provided between a hypervisor and an adjunct partition associated with a self-virtualizing IO resource to effectively abstract away vendor-specific interface details for the self-virtualizing IO resource and its adjunct partition. By doing so, vendor-specific implementation details may be isolated from the configuration and management functionality in a hypervisor, thus minimizing the changes to vendor specific firmware in order to manage new or revised self-virtualizing IO resources.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Barrett, Patrick A Rochester, US 1 64
Graham, Charles S Rochester, US 81 1594
Koch, Andrew T Rochester, US 28 868
Logan, Bryan M Rochester, US 29 629
Lucke, Kyle A Oronoco, US 40 1349

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