Intel 82545GM/EM Network Card User Manual


 
vi Software Developer’s Manual
Contents
3.2.5 Receive Descriptor Write-Back .......................................................... 26
3.2.6 Receive Descriptor Queue Structure.................................................. 26
3.2.7 Receive Interrupts ..............................................................................28
3.2.8 82544GC/EI Receive Interrupts ......................................................... 31
3.2.9 Receive Packet Checksum Offloading...............................................31
3.3 Packet Transmission........................................................................................... 34
3.3.1 Transmit Data Storage ....................................................................... 35
3.3.2 Transmit Descriptors .......................................................................... 35
3.3.3 Legacy Transmit Descriptor Format................................................... 36
3.3.4 Transmit Descriptor Special Field Format..........................................40
3.3.5 TCP/IP Context Transmit Descriptor Format......................................41
3.3.6 TCP/IP Context Descriptor Layout..................................................... 42
3.3.7 TCP/IP Data Descriptor Format .........................................................46
3.4 Transmit Descriptor Ring Structure.....................................................................51
3.4.1 Transmit Descriptor Fetching ............................................................. 53
3.4.2 Transmit Descriptor Write-back.......................................................... 53
3.4.3 Transmit Interrupts .............................................................................54
3.5 TCP Segmentation.............................................................................................. 55
3.5.1 Assumptions....................................................................................... 56
3.5.2 Transmission Process........................................................................ 56
3.5.3 TCP Segmentation Performance .......................................................57
3.5.4 Packet Format.................................................................................... 57
3.5.5 TCP Segmentation Indication............................................................. 58
3.5.6 TCP Segmentation Use of Multiple Data Descriptors ........................ 59
3.5.7 IP and TCP/UDP Headers..................................................................60
3.5.8 Transmit Checksum Offloading with TCP Segmentation ................... 64
3.5.9 IP/TCP/UDP Header Updating...........................................................65
3.6 IP/TCP/UDP Transmit Checksum Offloading...................................................... 68
4 PCI Local Bus Interface......................................................................................... 71
4.1 PCI Configuration................................................................................................ 71
4.1.1 PCI-X Configuration Registers ........................................................... 79
4.1.2 Reserved and Undefined Addresses.................................................. 82
4.1.3 Message Signaled Interrupts..............................................................83
4.2 Commands..........................................................................................................85
4.3 PCI/PCI-X Command Usage...............................................................................87
4.3.1 Memory Write Operations .................................................................. 87
4.3.2 Memory Read Operations .................................................................. 89
4.4 Cache Line Information....................................................................................... 90
4.4.1 Target Transaction Termination ......................................................... 91
4.5 Interrupt Assignment (82547GI/EI Only) ............................................................. 91
4.6 LAN Disable ........................................................................................................91
4.7 CardBus Application (82541PI/GI/EI Only) ......................................................... 92
5 EEPROM Interface ................................................................................................... 93
5.1 General Overview ............................................................................................... 93
5.2 Component Identification Via Programming Interface.........................................94
5.3 EEPROM Device and Interface...........................................................................95
5.3.1 Software Access................................................................................. 96
5.4 Signature and CRC Fields .................................................................................. 96