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NVM Information Guide—ICH8

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1.4.3

Reserved (Word 04h)

1.4.4

Image Version Information (Word 05h)

1.4.5

Reserved (Word 06h)

1.4.6

Reserved (Word 07h)

1.4.7

PBA Low, PBA High (Words 08h and 09h)

The nine digit printed board assembly (PBA) number used for Intel manufactured

adapter cards are stored in a four-byte field. The dash and the first digit of the three-

digit suffix are not stored.

1.4.7.1

PBA Example

If the PBA Number is “123456-003”

then word 08h = 1234h and word 09h = 5603h.

Through the course of hardware changes, the suffix field (byte 4) is incremented. The

purpose of this information is to enable customer support (or any user) to identify the

exact revision level of a product. The software device driver should not rely on this field

to identify the product or its capabilities.

Table 4.

Reserved (Word 04h)

Bit

Name

Default

Description

15:0

Reserved

FFFFh

These bits are reserved and should be set to FFFFh.

Table 5.

Image Version Information (Word 05h)

Bit

Name

Default

Description

15

Reserved

0b

This bit is reserved and should be set to 0b.

14:12

NVM Major Version

--

This field represents the LAN NVM major version number.

11:4

NVM Minor Version

--

This field represents the LAN NVM minor version number.

3:0

Image ID

2h

This field represents the NVM image identification. This field equals

2h (default) for the 82562V PHY and 0h for the 82566 PHY.

Table 6.

Reserved (Word 06h)

Bit

Name

Default

Description

15:0

Reserved

FFFFh

This field is reserved and should be set to FFFFh.

Table 7.

Reserved (Word 07h)

Bit

Name

Default

Description

15:0

Reserved

FFFFh

This field is reserved and should be set to FFFFh.

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