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AssigneeEmulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
InventorsJames B. WILLIAMS, Shawn Adam Clayton, Maria Clara Gutierrez, Alexander Nicolson, IV, James Winston Smart, John Leland Wood, David James Duckman, Carl John Lindeborg, William Irving Leavitt
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A system for enabling input/out virtualization for a device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of host CPUs; a multi-root switch connected to each of the plurality of host CPUs via respective buses; and an inline PCI virtualizing device connected to the multi-root switch via a front-side bus and the device via a back-side bus, the inline PCI virtualizing device including a plurality sets of registers, each of the plurality sets of registers accessible by a corresponding host CPU of the plurality of host CPUs and implementing functionalities of the device.
A system for enabling input/out virtualization for a device, the system comprising:
A system for enabling input/out virtualization for a device, the system comprising:
A Soft Register Unit for facilitating register access in a network device, the Soft Register Unit comprising:
A method for facilitating register access in a network device, the network device including a Soft Register Engine having an external connection via a PCIe link, a Soft Register CPU connected to the Soft Register Engine, a first memory including an address decode table, the first memory accessible to the Soft Register Engine and the Soft Register CPU, and a plurality of registers implemented in a second memory, the second memory accessible to the Soft Register Engine, the method comprising the steps of:
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