Texas Instruments PCI7421, PCI7411, PCI7611 CardBus I/O Limit Registers 0, Interrupt Line Register

4.22 CardBus I/O Limit Registers 0, 1

These registers indicate the upper address of a PCI I/O address range. They are used by the PCI7x21/PCI7x11 controller to determine when to forward an I/O transaction to the CardBus bus, and likewise, when to forward a CardBus cycle to PCI. The lower 16 bits of this register locate the top of the I/O window within a 64-Kbyte page, and the upper 16 bits are a page register which locates this 64-Kbyte page in 32-bit PCI I/O address space. Bits 15−2 are read/write and allow the I/O limit address to be located anywhere in the 64-Kbyte page (indicated by bits 31−16 of the appropriate I/O base register) on doubleword boundaries.

Bits 31−16 are read-only and always return 0s when read. The page is set in the I/O base register. Bits 15−2 are read/write and bits 1−0 are read-only , returning 00 or 01 when read, depending on the value of bit 12 (IO_LIMIT_SEL) in the general control register (PCI offset 86h, see Section 4.31). Writes to read-only bits have no effect.

These I/O windows are enabled when either the I/O base register or the I/O limit register is nonzero. By default, the I/O windows are not enabled to pass the first doubleword of I/O to CardBus.

Either the I/O base register or the I/O limit register must be nonzero to enable any I/O transactions.

Bit	31	30	29	28	27	26	25		24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16
Name								I/O limit registers 0, 1
Type	R	R	R	R	R	R	R		R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Default	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Bit	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
Name							I/O limit registers 0, 1
Type	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	RW	R	R
Default	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X
	Register:		I/O limit registers 0, 1
	Offset:		30h, 38h
	Type:		Read-only, Read/Write
	Default:		0000 000Xh

4.23 Interrupt Line Register

The interrupt line register is a read/write register used by the host software. As part of the interrupt routing procedure, the host software writes this register with the value of the system IRQ assigned to the function.

Bit	7	6	5	4		3	2	1	0
Name					Interrupt line
Type	RW	RW	RW	RW		RW	RW	RW	RW
Default	1	1	1	1		1	1	1	1

Register: Interrupt line

Offset: 3Ch

Type: Read/Write

Default: FFh

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