PCI Local Bus Interface

4.7CardBus Application (82541PI/GI/EI Only)

The 82541PI/GI/EI has some features to facilitate its use in a CardBus application, following revision 7 of the PC Card specification.

To use the 82541PI/GI/EI on CardBus, an external flash memory is required. Configure the Base Address Registers to 32-bit (required for CardBus) and enable CLKRUN in EEPROM. Setting these bits also enables the CardBus Information Space (CIS) pointer in the PCI Configuration Space. When enabled, the CIS pointer starts the first tuple of the CIS chain at byte address 20h in the Flash device. The PC Card specification requires that this tuple be a CISTPL_LINKTARGET tuple. The tuple chain can then continue within the memory.

When operating as a CardBus card, the 82541PI/GI/EI supports full functionality with the exception of wake up.

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