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316234-00 6 Revision 2.8 Intel® I/O Co ntroller Hub 8 LAN NVM Map and Information Guide January 2008.
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3 NVM Information Guide—ICH 8 Contents 1.0 Non-V olatile Memo ry (NV M) .......... ........ ........... ........... ............ ........... ............ ........... 5 1.1 Introduction .... ............ ........... ........ ........... ........... .
ICH8—NVM Information Guide 4 14 Extend ed Con fi gu rati on Word 3 (Word 16h) ....... .... ........ ... .... ............ ....... .... .... ....... .... 14 15 LED 1 Co nfiguration an d Power Manag ement (Word 17h) ..... ............ ........... ....
5 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide 1.0 Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) 1.1 In tro duc tio n The d ocument is inten ded for designs using t he 10/1 00/1000 Mb/s LA N contro ller that is i ntegrate d into the In tel ® I/O Control Hub 8 (ICH8) device . The NVM space is used f or hardware and soft ware configur at ion.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 6 Fig ur e 1. LA N NV M Re g io ns T o access the NVM, it is essential to correctly setup the f ollowing: 1. A valid Flash Descriptor R e gion must be present. Details for the Flash Descriptor Region are co ntained in the I CH8 ED S.
7 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide 6. The sector size o f the NVM must equal 256 bytes, 4 KB, or 64 KB. W hen a Flash device that uses a 64 KB sector erase is used, the GbE region size must equ al 128 KB. If the Flash part uses a 4 KB or 25 6-byte sect or erase, then the GbE region size must be se t to 8 KB.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 8 1.4 LAN NVM Format and Contents Ta b l e 1 lists the NVM maps for the LAN region. E ach word listed is described in detail in the foll owing s ec t ions.
9 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide Notes: 1. SW = Softwar e: This is acce ss from the ne twork configurat ion tool s and d rivers. 2. PXE = PXE Boot Agent: This is access f rom the PXE Option ROM code in BIOS. 3. HW -Shared = Hardware - Shared: This is read on when the Shared Configur ation is reset.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 10 1.4.3 Reserved (Word 04h) 1.4.4 Image Version Information (Word 05h) 1.4.5 Reserved (Word 06h) 1.4.6 Reserved (Word 07h) 1.4.7 PBA Low , PBA High (Words 08h an d 09h) The nine digit pr in te d board assembly (PBA) nu mb er used for Intel manu fact ure d adapter cards are sto red in a four -by te field.
11 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide 1.4.8 PCI Init ializatio n Contro l (Wor d 0Ah) This wo rd contai ns init ializa tion v alues th at: • Set defaults for some internal registers. • Enable/ disabl e s pe cific fe atures. • Determi n e which PCI configur ation sp ace valu es are loaded fro m the NVM.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 12 1.4.11 Device ID (Word 0Dh) If the Load Ven dor/Dev ice IDs b it in wo rd 0Ah is se t to 1b , th is word is re ad to in itial ize the Device ID of the LA N functio n. 1.4.12 Vendor ID (Word 0Eh) If the Load V endor/D evice I Ds bi t in word 0Ah is set to 1b, thi s word is read to init ialize the V en d o r ID .
13 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide 1.4.15 Shared Initialization Control (Word 13h) This word co ntrols g eneral in itiali zation values. Tabl e 11. Sha red In itializ ation Cont rol (Word 13h) Bit Name Default Description 15:14 SIGN 10b Va li d I n d i c at i o n This is a 2-bit fie ld indicating whether a valid NVM is p resent to the MAC.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 14 1.4.16 Extended Configuration Word 1 (Wor d 14h) 1.4.17 Extended Configuration Word 2 (Wor d 15h) 1.4.18 Extended Configuration Word 3 (Wor d 16h) Table 12 . Extende d Config uration W ord 1 (Wo rd 14h) Bit Name Default Description 15 Reserved 0b Reserve d.
15 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide 1.4.19 LED 1 Configuration and Pow er Management (Word 17h) This fi eld sp ecifi es the def ault value s for th e LEDCTL regist er fiel ds cont rollin g the L ED1 (LINK_10 00) out put behav iors and the OEM fi elds def ining the P HY power management par a met ers loaded to th e P H Y_CTRL regist er .
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 16 1.4.20 LED 0 and 2 Configuration Defaults (Word 18h) This NVM word speci fies the hardware d efaults for the LEDCTL register field s controlling the LED0 (LI NK/ACTIVI TY) and LED2 (LI NK_100) ou tp ut behav iors. Table 16.
17 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide T abl e 16 , “L ED Mode s” above summarizes the LED modes defined in bits 3:0 of this word. 1.4.21 Future In itializa tion Wo rd 1 (Wor ds 19h) 1.4.22 Future Init Word 2 (Word 1Ah) Bit Name Default Description 7 LED0 Blink 1b This bit indicates th e initial value of the LED0_BLINK field.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 18 1.4.23 PXE Words (Words 30h - 3Eh) W ords 30h throu gh 3Eh (b yt es 60 h th roug h 7Dh) ha ve bee n rese rved for co nfi gur ati on and versio n val ues to be used b y PXE code.
19 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide 1.4. 23.2 Boot Agen t Con figura tion Custo mizatio n Opti ons (Word 3 1h) W ord 31h contains settings that can be programmed by an OEM or n etwork administrator to customize the operation of the software.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 20 Table 19. Boot Agent Confi gur ation Cus tomizat i on Option s (W ord 31h) Bit Name Descri ption 15:14 SIG Signature. These bits must be s et to 01b to indicate that this word has been progr ammed by the agent or o ther configur ation software.
21 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide 1.4. 23.3 Boot Agen t Con figura tion Custo mizatio n Opti ons (Word 3 2h) W ord 32 h is u sed to sto r e th e version of the boot agent that is stored i n the Flash image. Wh en the Bo ot Agent loads, it can check t his val ue to dete rmine if an y first -time confi guration ne eds to be pe rform ed.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 22 1.4 .23.4 IBA C apabi liti es ( Word 33h) W ord 33 h is u sed to e numer ate th e boot t echnolo gies th at ha ve been progr ammed into the Flas h. It is up dated by IB A conf ig ur ation too ls and is not upda t ed or read by IBA.
23 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide Appendix A ICH8 NVM Contents and Sample Images This section contains a sample of raw NVM contents for the I CH8. All values for the se images are hexadecimal.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 24 A.1 82566DM NVM Image with ICH8 0/8 1/9 2/A 3/B 4/C 5/D 6/E 7/F 8888 8888 8887 0800 FFFF 1030 FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF 10C7 0000 8086 104A 8086 0000 0D01 0000 0000 9605 5020.
25 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide A.2 82566MM NVM Im age with ICH8M Note: For us e with ICH8 B-1 stepping o nly . Image has In tel® ACBS enab led. 0/8 1/9 2/A 3/B 4/C 5/D 6/E 7/F 8888 8888 8887 0800 F.
NVM Information Guide—ICH8 26 A.3 82566MC NVM Image with ICH8 0/8 1/9 2/A 3/B 4/C 5/D 6/E 7/F 8888 8888 8887 0800 FFFF 2000 FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF 10C7 0000 8086 104D 8086 0000 0D01 0000 0000 9605 5020.
27 ICH8—NVM In formation Guide A.4 82562V NVM Image with ICH8 0/8 1/9 2/A 3/B 4/C 5/D 6/E 7/F 8888 8888 8887 0800 FFFF 1002 FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF 10C7 0000 8086 104C 8086 0000 0402 0000 0000 9687 4020.
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