Interrupt Support

Interrupt Support

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The Intel® 41210 Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge (called hereafter the 41210 Bridge or 41210) can generate an in-band interrupt request on PCI Express* for boot devices and for systems that do not support Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI).

7.1Legacy Interrupt Sharing

PCI Express* provides interrupt messages that emulate the legacy wired mechanism. This feature allows I/O devices to signal PCI-style interrupts using a pair of ASSERT and DEASSERT messages. This message pairing preserves the level-sensitive semantics of the PCI interrupts on PCI Express*.

The four virtual wire interrupts (INTA–INTD) correspond to the four interrupt wires defined in the PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.3. The 41210 routes its PCI interrupt pins and the internal interrupts to the PCI Express* INTx interrupts as shown in Table 23.

Table 23.

INTx Routing Table

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A_INTx# Interrupt Pins

B_INTx# Interrupt Pins

PCI Express* INTx Message

 

 

 

 

 

A_INTA#

B_INTA#

INTA

 

 

 

 

 

A_INTB#

B_INTB#

INTB

 

 

 

 

 

A_INTC#

B_INTC#

INTC

 

 

 

 

 

A_INTD#

B_INTD#

INTD

 

 

 

 

Each row in Table 23 indicates a logical ORing of the interrupts in that row. The ASSERT/DEASSERT message sent out on PCI Express* captures the asserting/deasserting edge of the signal that represents the logical OR of the interrupts in that row.

The 41210 uses its primary bus number and device number in the Requester ID field for the PCI Express* INTx messages. As stated in the PCI Express* Specification, Revision 1.0a, the function number is reserved for interrupt messages and is always 0.

Note: PCI Express* Assert_INTx/Deassert_INTx messages are not inhibited by the Bus Master Enable (BME) bit.

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