Status reporting apparatus and status reporting method
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsTatsuyasu Matsumoto, Tatsuya Kuwayama
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Abstract
A priority determining unit determines a priority of a status of a device connected to a second bus that is connected, via a bridge, to a first bus to which a central processing unit and a storage unit are connected. A bus-status determining unit determines a use status of the second bus. A status writing unit writes the status to the storage unit based on a result of determination by the priority determining unit and a result of determination by the bus-status determining unit.
Claims6
An apparatus for reporting a status of a device to a central processing unit, the device being connected to a second bus that is connected, via a bridge, to a first bus to which the central processing unit and a storage unit are connected, the apparatus comprising:
- a priority determining unit that determines a priority of the status;
- a bus-status determining unit that determines a use status of the second bus;
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- a status writing unit that writes the status to the storage unit based on a first result of determination by the priority determining unit and a second result of determination by the bus-status determining unit.
A method of reporting a status of a device to a central processing unit, the device being connected to a second bus that is connected, via a bridge, to a first bus to which the central processing unit and a storage unit are connected, the method comprising:
- determining a priority of the status;
- determining a use status of the second bus;
- and
- writing the status to the storage unit based on a first result of determination at the determining a priority and a second result of determination at the determining a use status.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.