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Software Developer’s Manual 293
Register Descriptions
13.4.20 Interrupt Mask Set/Read Register
IMS (000D0h; R/W)
An interrupt is enabled if its corresponding mask bit is set to 1b, and disabled if its corresponding
mask bit is set to 0b. A PCI interrupt is generated each time one of the bits in this register is set and
the corresponding interrupt condition occurs. The occurrence of an interrupt condition is reflected
by having a bit set in the Interrupt Cause Read Register (see Section 13.4.17).
A particular interrupt can be enabled by writing a 1b to the corresponding mask bit in this register.
Any bits written with a 0b are unchanged. As a result, if software desires to disable a particular
interrupt condition that had been previously enabled, it must write to the Interrupt Mask Clear
Register (see Section 13.4.21) rather than writing a 0b to a bit in this register.
Reading this register returns bits that have an interrupt mask set.
Note: For the 82547GI/EI, programmers need to first write (clear) the IMS and IMC registers due to a
Hub Link bus being occupied. This results in an interrupt de-assertion message that can’t to be sent
out. When a future interrupt assertion message is generated, two messages are re-ordered and sent
out. This signals APIC that the
82547GI/EI is in a de-asserted state when it is actually in an
asserted state, which causes a system dead lock. To avoid a system dead lock, first clear the IMS
and IMC registers by writing FFFFh and then re-assert IRQ enable.
Table 13-65. IMS Register Bit Description
GPI 14:11 X Sets General Purpose Interrupts (82544GC/EI only).
GPI 14:13 X Sets General Purpose Interrupts.
TXD_LOW 15 X
Transmit Descriptor Low Threshold Hit. Not applicable to the
82544GC/EI.
SRPD 16 X
Small Receive Packet Detected and Transferred. Not applicable
to the 82544GC/EI.
Reserved 31:17 X
Reserved
Should be written with 0b to ensure future compatibility.
Field Bit(s)
Initial
Value
Description
31 17 16 0
Reserved IMS Bits
Field Bit(s)
Initial
Value
Description
TXDW 0 X Sets mask for Transmit Descriptor Written Back.
TXQE 1 X Sets mask for Transmit Queue Empty.
LSC 2 X Sets mask for Link Status Change.