User’s Manual

IBM PowerPC 750GX and 750GL RISC Microprocessor

Figure 10-1. 750GX Power States

Full

On

T1

T6

T2

T5

T3 T4

T7

Doze

Sleep

T8

allow snoop

T1: HID0(Doze) = 1 and MSR(POW) 01

Nap

T2: HRESET, SRESET, INT, SMI, MCP, DEC, PFM, machine-check interrupts, thermal-management interrupt

T3: HID0(Nap) = 1 and MSR(POW) 0 1 T4:HRESET, SRESET, INT, SMI, MCP, DEC T5: HID0(Sleep) = 1 and MSR(POW) 01

T6: HRESET, SRESET, INT, SMI, MCP

T7: QACK 0 1

T8: QACK 1 0

Table 10-1. 750GX Microprocessor Programmable Power Modes

Power

 

 

 

 

Management

 

Functioning Units

Activation Method

Full-Power Wake Up Method

Mode

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full on

All units active

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bus snooping

 

External asynchronous exceptions1

 

• Data cache as needed

 

Decrementer interrupt

Doze

Decrementer timer

Controlled by software

Performance-monitor interrupt

 

 

 

 

Thermal-management interrupt

 

 

 

 

Hard or soft reset

 

 

 

 

 

• Bus snooping (enabled by deas-

 

External asynchronous exceptions1

Nap

 

sertion of QACK)

Controlled by hardware and software

Decrementer interrupt

 

Decrementer timer

 

Hard or soft reset

 

 

 

 

 

Sleep

None

Controlled by hardware and software

External asynchronous exceptions*

Hard or soft reset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Exceptions are referred to as interrupts in the architecture specification.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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