Invention Application
- Patent Title: PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS (PCIE) DEVICE ENUMERATION VIA A PCIE SWITCH
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Application No.: US15634396Application Date: 2017-06-27
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Publication No.: US20180373669A1Publication Date: 2018-12-27
- Inventor: Berck Nash , Randall Hess , Michael Walker , James Michael Reiser
- Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Main IPC: G06F13/42
- IPC: G06F13/42 ; G06F13/40

Abstract:
Described herein are enhancements for managing multi-host Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) switching. In one implementation, a PCIe switch coupled to a host processing system and PCIe slots may receive enumeration requests from the host processing system to identify available PCIe devices. In response to the enumeration requests, the PCIe switch may transfer responses to the host processing system indicating device identifier information for PCIe devices associated with the PCIe slots even if one or more of the PCIe devices is not currently installed
Public/Granted literature
- US10824581B2 Peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) device enumeration via a PCIe switch Public/Granted day:2020-11-03
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