Capabilities pointer, 0x34, Interrupt line – Avago Technologies LSI53C895A User Manual

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PCI Configuration Registers

4-13

The host system detects the size of the external memory
by first writing the

Expansion ROM Base Address

register

with all ones and then reading back the register. The
LSI53C895A responds with zeros in all don’t care
locations. The ones in the remaining bits represent the
binary version of the external memory size. For example,
to indicate an external memory size of 32 Kbytes, this
register, when written with ones and read back, returns
ones in the upper 17 bits.

The size of the external memory is set through MAD[3:1].
Please see the section on

MAD Bus Programming

for the

possible size encodings available.

Register:

0x34

Capabilities Pointer
Read Only

CP

Capabilities Pointer

[7:0]

This register indicates that the first extended capability
register is located at offset 0x40 in the PCI Configuration.

Registers: 0x35–0x3B

Reserved

Register: 0x3C

Interrupt Line
Read/Write

IL

Interrupt Line

[7:0]

This register is used to communicate interrupt line routing
information. POST software writes the routing information
into this register as it configures the system. The value in
this register tells which input of the system interrupt

7

0

CP

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

7

0

IL

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

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