External Devices

reserves the following two LED locations for its drivers. The bit numbers refer to their locations in LEDreg.

-Bit 0 (LSB) displays link status.

-Bit 4 displays activity.

2.6.3EEPROM

The implementation-specific configuration information is read or written into the EEPROM from two sources. Control of the two-wire serial bus to the EEPROM (EDIO and EDCLK bits) on reset (hardware or software) rests with the four bits in the PCI_ NVRAM register (DATA, DDIR, CLOCK, CDIR) in the PCI configuration space. Any time this register is written to, control of the EDIO/EDCLK bus reverts back to this register.

The other possible source of values for this bus is from an internal register, the network serial I/O register NetSio. Here the three bits used to control the inter- face are EDATA, ETXEN, and ECLOK. The PCI_ NVRAM register interface to this external EEPROM port was designed assuming that there might be anoth- er master device on this bus. Note that NetSio does not implement a clock direction register. Assuming that only one EEPROM is on the serial bus and only the ThunderLAN device is driving the bus, both control implementations are equivalent. Use NetSio when possible to read or write to the EEPROM.

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TNETE110A, TNETE211, TNETE100A specifications

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