PCI Bridge
MPC8260 PowerQUICC II Family Reference Manual, Rev. 2
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Figure 9-66. Inbound Free_FIFO Tail Pointer Register (IFTPR)
9.12.3.2.2 Inbound Post_FIFO Head Pointer Register (IPHPR) and
Inbound Post_FIFO Tail Pointer Register (IPTPR)
The inbound post FIFO holds MFAs from external PCI masters which are posted to the local processor.
PCI masters, external to the PCI bridge, write to the head of the FIFO by writing the MFA to IFQPR (refer
to Section 9.12.3.4.1, “Inbound FIFO Queue Port Register (IFQPR)”). The I2O unit transfers the MFA to
the location pointed to by the IPHPR. The local address is QBAR + IPHPR.
Once the MFA has been written to the queue in local memory, the PCI bridge’s I2O unit advances the
IPHPR to set up for the next message. This causes an interrupt to be asserted to the local processor. The
inbound post queue interrupt bit in the inbound interrupt status register (IMISR[IPQI]) is set to indicate
this condition (refer to Table9- 62). The local processor acknowledges the message (i.e. MFA) by writing
a one to the appropriate status bit (IMISR[IPQI]) to clear it. The local processor fetches the MFA by
reading the contents of the IPTPR. After the local processor has read the message pointed to by the MFA,
the local processor must advance the IPTPR. Once the processor has completed use of the message, it must
return the message buffer (i.e. MFA) to the inbound free list FIFO.
PCI masters post MFAs to the inbound post list FIFO that is pointed to by the inbound post_FIFO head
pointer register, described in Figure9-67 and Table 9-52. The PCI writes are addressed to the inbound
queue port. Hardware (in the I2O module) automatically advances the IPHPR after every write.
31 20 19 16
Field QBA IFTP
Reset 0000_0000_0000_0000
R/W R R/W
Addr 0x104AA
15 210
Field IFTP —
Reset 0000_0000_0000_0000
R/W R/W R
Addr 0x104A8
Table9-51. IFTPR Field Descriptions
Bits Name Description
31–20 QBA Queue base address. When read returns the contents of QBAR bits 31-20.
19–2 IFTP Inbound free_FIFO tail pointer. Local memory offset of the tail pointer of the inbound free list FIFO.
1–0 — Reserved, should be cleared.