September 1999
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
8h 19m
English
The software mechanism by which Dynamic Reconfiguration increases resources available to the operating system is called attaching (see FIGURE 8-9).

The DR-attach mechanism provides a way for the operating system to logically integrate new cpu, memory and I/O resources into its resource pool and make them immediately available to applications requiring the increased capacity. The DR-attach process creates the appropriate device file links and loads the appropriate drivers to support the newly introduced I/O interfaces contained by the system board.
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