AMD
PRELIMINARY
Preemption When FRAME is Asserted
The central arbiter can take GNT to the PCnet-PCI con-
troller away if the current bus operation takes too long.
This may happen e.g. when the PCnet-PCI controller
tries to fill the whole transmit FIFO and the target inserts
extra wait states for every data phase. When GNT is
taken away, the PCnet-PCI controller will finish the
current transfer and then immediately release the bus.
The Latency Timer in PCI configuration space of the
PCnet-PCI controller is always set to ZERO. The PCnet-
PCI controller will keep REQ asserted to regain bus
ownership as soon as possible.
CLK
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
FRAME
AD
ADDR DATA
DATA DATA
C/BE
0111
0000
PAR
PAR PAR
PAR PAR
IRDY
TRDY
DEVSEL
REQ
GNT
DEVSEL is sampled by the PCnet-PCI controller.
Figure 11. Preemption When FRAME is Asserted
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