PCI Configuration Space

r.h.ah = PCI_FUNCTION_ID; r.h.al = FIND_PCI_DEVICE; r.x.cx = DeviceID; r.x.dx = VendorID; r.x.si = Index; int86(PCI_INT, &r, &r); *pDev = (WORD)r.x.bx; return (int)r.h.ah;

}

This code returns the function ID that is used to request reads and writes to the ThunderLAN PCI configuration space; this varies from installation to instal- lation, based on hardware implementation and slot. This ID is necessary to de- termine where ThunderLAN is. The device ID indicates a networking card, and the vendor ID is the manufacturer code. These values can be overlaid in the configuration space with values from the EEPROM during the autoconfigura- tion. These should be available to the driver software either in the BIOS ROM or on machine-readable media supplied with the network board(s).

The following example reads a byte of a PCI register:

//±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±

//PciRdByte() ± Read a byte from PCI configuration space

//Parameters:

//

devid

WORD

pci device identifier

//

addr

WORD

config address

//

 

 

 

//Return val:

// BYTEvalue read

//±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± BYTE PciRdByte(WORD devid, WORD addr)

{

 

 

union REGS r;

 

 

r.h.ah = PCI_FUNCTION_ID;

/*

PCI_FUNCTION_ID

0xB1 */

 

 

r.h.al = READ_CONFIG_BYTE;

/*

READ_CONFIG_WORD

0x09 */

 

 

r.x.bx = devid;

 

 

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