Inventors:
Carl A. Bender - Highland NY, US
Nihad Hadzic - Wappingers Falls NY, US
Jeffrey C. Hanscom - Poughkeepsie NY, US
Howard M. Haynie - Wappingers Falls NY, US
Jeffrey M. Turner - Poughkeepsie NY, US
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06F 15/177, G06F 9/00
Abstract:
Programmable hardware devices are re-programmed without system downtime. To re-program the device, the device is quiesced, state associated with the device is saved, updates are loaded, the state is restored and operations are resumed, all transparent to the system, except for a possible delay in the system.