Intel SDS2 User Manual

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Intel® Server Board SDS2

I/O Subsystem

Revision 1.2

Order Number: A85874-002

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ISA Interrupt

Description

INTR

Processor interrupt

NMI

NMI to processor

IRQ1

Keyboard interrupt

IRQ3

Serial port 1 or 2 interrupt from SIO device

IRQ4

Serial port 1 or 2 interrupt from SIO device

IRQ5

IRQ6

Floppy Controller

IRQ7

IRQ8_L

Real Time Clock interrupt

IRQ9

IRQ10

IRQ11

IRQ12

PS/2 Mouse interrupt

IRQ14

Primary channel IDE interrupt

SMI*

System Management Interrupt. General purpose indicator sourced by
the CSB5 and BMC to the processors

SCI*

System Control Interrupt. Used by system to change sleep states and
other system level type functions

4.7.2

APIC Interrupt Routing

For APIC mode, the SDS2 interrupt architecture incorporates three Intel I/O APIC devices to
manage and broadcast interrupts to local APICs in each processor. The I/O APICs monitor each
interrupt on each PCI device including PCI slots in addition to the ISA compatibility interrupts IRQ
(0-15). When an interrupt occurs, a message corresponding to the interrupt is sent across a
three-wire serial interface to the local APICs. The APIC bus minimizes interrupt latency time for
compatibility interrupt sources. The I/O APICs can also supply greater than 16 interrupt levels to
the processor(s).

4.7.3

Serialized IRQ Support

The SDS2 Server Board supports a serialized interrupt delivery mechanism. Serialized IRQs
(SERIRQ) consists of a start frame, a minimum of 17 IRQ / data channels, and a stop frame.
Any slave device in the quiet mode may initiate the start frame. While in the continuous mode,
the start frame is initiated by the host controller.

4.7.4

IRQ Scan for PCIIRQ

The IRQ / data frame structure includes the ability to handle up to 32 sampling channels with the
standard implementation using the minimum 17 sampling channels. The SDS2 Server Board
has an external PCI interrupt serializer for PCIIRQ scan mechanism of CSB5 to support 16
PCIIRQs.

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