Techniques to support multiple interconnect protocols for a common set of interconnect connectors

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising a plurality of instructions, that when executed, enable processing circuitry to:

• determine a configuration for a plurality of connectors, the configuration to associate a first interconnect protocol with a first subset of the plurality of connectors and a second interconnect protocol with a second subset of the plurality of connectors, the first interconnect protocol and the second interconnect protocol are different interconnect protocols, where the first interconnect protocol is a serial link protocol, and the second interconnect protocol is a coherent link protocol or an accelerator link protocol;
• activate protocol agents for the first interconnect protocol and the second interconnect protocol;
• configure one or more protocol maps and routing tables based on the active protocol agents;
• cause processing of data for communication via the first subset of the plurality of connectors in accordance with the first interconnect protocol with the one or more protocol maps and routing tables;
• and
• cause processing of data for communication via the second subset of the plurality of connector in accordance with the second interconnect protocol with the one or more protocol maps and routing tables.

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• determining a configuration for a plurality of connectors, the configuration to associate a first interconnect protocol with a first subset of the plurality of connectors and a second interconnect protocol with a second subset of the plurality of connectors, the first interconnect protocol and the second interconnect protocol are different interconnect protocols, where the first interconnect protocol is a serial link protocol, and the second interconnect protocol is a coherent link protocol or an accelerator link protocol;
• activating protocol agents for the first interconnect protocol and the second interconnect protocol;
• configuring one or more protocol maps and routing tables based on the active protocol agents;
• causing processing of data for communication via the first subset of the plurality of connectors in accordance with the first interconnect protocol with the one or more protocol maps and routing tables;
• and
• causing processing of data for communication via the second subset of the plurality of connector in accordance with the second interconnect protocol with the one or more protocol maps and routing tables.