Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for PCI hybrid function
- Patent Title (中): PCI混合功能的方法和系统
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Application No.: US12706964Application Date: 2010-02-17
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Publication No.: US08271707B2Publication Date: 2012-09-18
- Inventor: Frankie Fan , Robert Lusinsky , Burhan Masood
- Applicant: Frankie Fan , Robert Lusinsky , Burhan Masood
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP.
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; G06F9/00

Abstract:
A single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) capable peripheral component interconnect (PCI) device may be operable to configure resources to transparently operate in a non-SR-IOV environment utilizing a physical function (PF) and one or more hybrid functions (HFs). In instances when the SR-IOV capable PCI device is operating in a SR-IOV environment, the SR-IOV capable PCI device may expose a VF configuration space in the hybrid function to an associated PCI driver for configuring the hybrid function as a virtual function. In instances when the SR-IOV capable PCI device is operating in a non-SR-IOV environment, the SR-IOV capable PCI device may hide a SR-IOV extended header in the physical function from the associated PCI driver and expose a PF configuration space in the hybrid function to the associated PCI driver for configuring the hybrid function as a physical function.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110202702A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PCI HYBRID FUNCTION Public/Granted day:2011-08-18
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