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Chapter 4 System Support

andard ISA interrupts (IRQn).

ndows NT and Windows 2000 operating

The PCI interrupts can be configured by PCI Configuration Registers 60h..63h to share the
st

NOTE: The
systems. Systems running the Windows 95 or 98 operating system will need to run in
8259 mode.

sk

e Interrupt processing is controlled and m

ist

. These registers are listed in Table 4-9.

9. Maskable Interrupt Contro

Table 4

Maskable Interrupt Control Registers

Register
Base Address, Int. Cn
Initialization Command

APIC mode is supported by the Wi


hrough standard AT-type I/O-mapped

Table 4-

l Registers

-9.

Ma abl

onitored t

reg ers

I/O Port
020h

tlr. 1

021h

Word 2-4, Int. Cntlr. 1

0A0h

Base Address, Int. Cntlr. 2

1h

Initialization Command Word

0A

2-4, Int. Cntlr. 2



The initialization and operation of the interrupt control registers follows standard AT-type
protocol.

4.4.1.2

ut may be

maskabl

software using logic external to the microprocessor. There are two non-maskable

terrupt signals: the NMI- and the SMI-. These signals have service priority over all maskable

interrupt with the SMI- having top priority over all interrupts including the NMI-.

MI- Generation

he SERR- and PERR- signals are routed through the ICH2 component, which in turn activates

the NMI to the microprocessor.

Non-Maskable

Interrupts

Non-maskable interrupts cannot be masked (inhibited) within the microprocessor itself b

e by

in

s,

N


The Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI-) signal can be generated by one of the following actions:

Parity errors detected on a PCI bus (activating SERR- or PERR-).


♦ Microprocessor internal error (activating IERRA or IERRB)

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