HP dx7300 PCI 2.3 Bus Master Arbitration

System Support

The register index (CF8h, bits <7..2>) identifies the 32-bit location within the configuration space of the PCI device to be accessed. All PCI devices can contain up to 256 bytes of configuration data (Figure 4-3), of which the first 64 bytes comprise the configuration space header.

31			24 23		16 15		8	7		0	Index
											FCh
				Device-Specific Area
											40h
	Min. Lat.			Min. GNT			Int. Pin			Int. Line	3Ch
					Reserved						38h
					Reserved						34h
			Ex pansion ROM Base Address								30h
		Subs ystem ID					Subs ystem Vendor ID				2Ch
				Card Bus CIS Pointer							28h
Configuration
Space
Header				Base Address Registers
											10h
		BIST		Hdr. T ype		Lat. Timer				Line Size	0Ch
				Class Code					Revision ID		08h
			Status				Command				04h
		Device ID					Vendor ID				00h

31	24	23		16 15		8	7		0
			Device-Specific Area
	Bridge Control				Int. Pin			Int. Line
	Ex pansion ROM Base Address
				Reserved
I/O Limit Upper 16 Bits					I/O Base U		pper 16 Bits
	Prefetchable Limit U					pper 32 Bits
	Prefetchable Base U					pper 32 Bits
Prefetch. Mem. Limit					Prefetch. Mem. Base
	Memory Limit					Memory Base
	Secondar y Status				I/O Limit			I/O Base
2nd	Lat.Tmr		Sub. Bus #		Sec. Bus #			Pri. Bus #
			Base Address Registers
	BIST		Hdr. T ype		Lat. Timer			Line Size
			Class Code					Revision ID
	Status					Command
	Device ID					Vendor ID

Index

FCh

40h

3Ch

38h

34h

30h

2Ch

28h

24h

20h

1Ch

18h

10h

0Ch

08h

04h

00h

PCI Configuration Space Type 0		PCI Configuration Space Type 1
	Data required by PCI protocol	Not required

Figure 4-3. PCI Configuration Space Mapping

PCI 2.3 Bus Master Arbitration

The PCI bus supports a bus master/target arbitration scheme. A bus master is a device that has been granted control of the bus for the purpose of initiating a transaction. A target is a device that is the recipient of a transaction. The Request (REQ), Grant (GNT), and FRAME signals are used by PCI bus masters for gaining access to the PCI bus. When a PCI device needs access to the PCI bus (and does not already own it), the PCI device asserts it's REQn signal to the PCI bus arbiter (a function of the system controller component). If the bus is available, the arbiter asserts the GNTn signal to the requesting device, which then asserts FRAME and conducts the address phase of the transaction with a target. If the PCI device already owns the bus, a request is not needed and the device can simply assert FRAME and conduct the transaction. Table 4-3 shows the grant and request signals assignments for the devices on the PCI bus.

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