90 Intel® 41210 Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge Developer’s Manual

Register Description
12.2.21 Offset 40h: BCNF—Bridge Configuration Register

The bridge control bits specific to the Intel® 41210 Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge are listed in

Table 5 5.

Table 55. Offset 40h: BCNF—Bridge Configuration Register

Bits Type Reset Description
15 RsvdP 0h Preserved
14 RW See
Table11 on
page 25.
PCI Mode (PMODE): This bit determines the mode of operation of the PCI bus. This bit
reflects the status of the current PCI bus mode and also allows the software to change the
mode by writing to this bit. The power-up value of this register is written based upon
Table11, “PCI Mode Pin/Strap Encoding” on page 25.
0 = Conventional PCI
1 = PCI-X
13:11 RsvdP 101b Preserv ed
10:9 RW See
Table12 on
page 25.
PCI Frequency (PFREQ): This bit determines the frequency at which the PCI bus operates.
The power-up value of this register is written based upon Table12, “PCI-X Initialization
Pattern” on page 25. After the software determines the capabilities of the bus, it sets this
value, and the PMODE bit (bit[14] of this register) to the desired frequency and resets the
PCI bus. The values are encoded as follows:
Results are indeterminate when invalid combinations are written by the software.
8 RsvdP 0b Preserved
7RW 1b
Peer Memory Read Enable (PMRE):
0 = Normal operation. Peer m emory reads are not allowed. All memory reads from a PCI
bridge are sent to PCI Express* regardless of address.
1 = Peer memory reads f rom one PCI segment to another are supported.
6:4 RsvdP 000b Preserved
3 RsvdP 0b Preserved
2 RsvdP 0b Preserved
1:0 RW 00b
Maximum Upstream Delayed Transactions (MDT): This bit controls the maximum number
of upstream delayed transactions the Intel® 41210 Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge is allowed to
have:
Bit[10:9] Frequency Comments
00 33 MHz Val id only when PMODE is 0.
01 66 MHz
10 100MHz Valid only when PMODE is 1.
11 133MHz Valid only when PMODE is 1.
Bit Maximum Number of Upstream Delayed Transactions
00 4 active, 4 pending
01 1 active, 1 pending
10 2 active, 2 pending
11 Rese rve d