February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
11h 47m
English
Many current generation computers use the PCI configuration method and the 256 byte PCI configuration space memory required of all PCI-compliant devices to help set up and manage system chipsets and I/O peripherals. Using PCI configuration for a bus protocol such as HyperTransport goes a long way toward promoting software compatibility with the millions of systems already supporting buses employing PCI-based configuration, including PCI, AGP, PCI-X, USB, etc. HyperTransport is designed for PCI plug-and-play configuration and to minimize impact on existing BIOS and driver software.
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