A method for supporting multiple distributed interrupt controllers, designated as bus agents, in a symmetric multiprocessing system, which method includes the steps of assigning a unique identification number to each bus agent, receiving bus requests from the bus agents over four data lines in groups...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6041377?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6041377 - Method and apparatus for distributing interrupts in a scalable symmetric multiprocessor system without changing the bus width or bus protocol
Method and apparatus for distributing interrupts in a scalable symmetric ...