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Functional Description
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5.1.2System Bus Interrupt Delivery
The Pentium 4 processor supports the system bus interrupt delivery; the APIC serial bus interrupt delivery mechanism is not supported.
In an 845 chipset platform, the ICH2 contains IOxAPICs, and its interrupts are generated as upstream hub interface memory writes. Furthermore, PCI 2.2 defines MSIs (Message Signaled Interrupts) that are also in the form of memory writes. A PCI 2.2 device can generate an interrupt as an MSI cycle on it’s PCI bus, instead of asserting a hardware signal to the IOxAPIC. The MSI can be directed to the IOxAPIC, which in turn generates an interrupt as an upstream hub interface memory write. Alternatively, the MSI can be directed directly to the system bus. The target of a MSI is dependent on the address of the interrupt memory write. The MCH forwards inbound hub interface and AGP (PCI semantic only) memory writes to address 0FEEx_xxxxh, to the system bus as “Interrupt Message Transactions”.
5.1.3Upstream Interrupt Messages
The MCH accepts
108 | Intel® 82845 MCH for SDR Datasheet |