| US 7,502,908 B2 | ||
| Method for providing an address format compatible with different addressing formats used for addressing different sized address spaces | ||
| Harry Morris Yudenfriend, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (US); Richard Anthony Ripberger, Tucson, Ariz. (US); Kenneth Michael Kapulka, St. Petersburg, Fla. (US); Josephine M. Edwards, legal representative; Peter Grimm Sutton, La Grangeville, N.Y. (US); Matthew Joseph Kalos, Tucson, Ariz. (US); Wayne Erwin Rhoten, Morgan Hill, Calif. (US); Marc Kenneth Duquette, Santa Cruz, Calif. (US); Michelle Dais, legal representative; James B. Cammarata, La Grange Park, Ill. (US); and John Glenn Thompson, Tucson, Ariz. (US) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on May 04, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/381,712. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0260825 A1, Nov. 08, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 12/06 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 711—212 | 12 Claims |
| 1. A method, comprising:
processing an address format used in an operating system executed in a computer readable storage medium to address storage
space in a storage device comprising a first region and a second region of storage space, wherein a first group of applications
is coded to use a first set of bits in the address format and is limited to only address the storage space in the first region
and is not coded to use bits in a second set of bits of the address format to access the second region and a second group
of applications is coded to use the first and second sets of bits in the address format to address the storage space in the
first and second regions.
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