Patent ID: 7900028

Claim:
A method for initializing a first bus device and a second bus device sharing a common transmission engine of a bus, for use in a computer system coupled thereto the first bus device and the second bus device via the bus and the common transmission engine, the method comprising steps of: disabling a first link of the first bus device and a second link of the second bus device to the common transmission engine when the computer system is booted; establishing the first link to the common transmission engine; issuing a first state updating signal from the first bus device for initializing the first bus device after the first link to the common transmission engine is established; establishing the second link to the common transmission engine after the first state updating signal is issued and then received by the computer system to update a state of the first bus device; and issuing a second state updating signal from the second bus device for initializing the second bus device after the second link to the common transmission engine is established.