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US08219989B2 Partition adjunct with non-native device driver for facilitating access to a physical input/output device
有权
使用非本地设备驱动程序进行分区,以便于访问物理输入/输出设备
- Patent Title: Partition adjunct with non-native device driver for facilitating access to a physical input/output device
- Patent Title (中): 使用非本地设备驱动程序进行分区,以便于访问物理输入/输出设备
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Application No.: US12110982Application Date: 2008-04-28
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Publication No.: US08219989B2Publication Date: 2012-07-10
- Inventor: William J. Armstrong , Orran Y. Krieger , Michal Ostrowski , Randal C. Swanberg
- Applicant: William J. Armstrong , Orran Y. Krieger , Michal Ostrowski , Randal C. Swanberg
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F12/00 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F13/28

Abstract:
Dedicated access is provided to a physical input/output (I/O) device which is non-configurable by an initiating logical partition. Access is established by: initiating, by the logical partition, creation of a partition adjunct; invoking a hypervisor of the data processing system to instantiate the partition adjunct with resources donated from the initiating logical partition, the donated resources including a donated virtual address space of the logical partition and the physical I/O device; creating, by the hypervisor, the partition adjunct and assigning the donated virtual address space and donated physical I/O device to the created partition adjunct; and interfacing, by the hypervisor, the logical partition and the created partition adjunct, the interfacing including providing the logical partition with a virtual I/O device which replaces the donated physical I/O device, and which is configurable by the logical partition.
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