AGP Subsystem

All regions, including the two described above, must be checked after GART translation. The GXB must only allow accesses that are directed to physical memory to reach the SAC. Therefore, the GXB must force a BINIT#, by asserting its “XBINIT#” output, when it detects an access falling in any of the following regions:

•Above the TOM register value (firmware sets TOM to top of physical system memory - this may be anywhere in memory, as low as 64 MB or as high as 64 GB)

•Between GAPBASE and GAPTOP registers and not in the SAPIC interrupt delivery region - firmware must set these two registers to cover the following ranges:

—In High System firmware (fixed range from 4G to 4G-16M).

—In first megabyte of Itanium processor specific (fixed range from 4G-16M to 4G-17M).

—In Itanium processor specific below the Interrupt region (fixed range from 4G-18M to 4G-20M).

—In chipset specific (fixed range from 4G-20M to 4G-32M).

—In any of the nx32M PCI spaces.

Therefore GAPTOP=4G and GAPBASE is the lowest PXB’s/GXB’s MMBASE in the system. Note, the SAPIC interrupt delivery area from 4G-17M to 4G-18M must be allowed and specifically decoded so it will *not* cause a fault.

•In a MARG with DRAM accesses disabled (the MARGs cover the C, D, E, and F segments).

•In the VGA region (A_0000-BFFFF) with VGAGE enabled so that this region is directed to PCI, a PCI access in this range would not have gotten DEVSEL#.

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