July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1744 pages
35h 3m
English
The Previous Chapter
This chapter provided a detailed description of the software enhancements first implemented in the Pentium® II processor. This discussion is directly applicable to all subsequent IA32 processors. This included:
The Pentium® II and Pentium® III MSRs.
The Fast System Call/Return Instruction Pair.
The FP/SSE Save/Restore Instruction Pair.
New/Altered Exceptions.
This Chapter
This chapter describes the first Xeon processor. It was based on the Pentium® II processor. This includes:
The Cartridge.
FSB Protocol Alteration (GTL+ to AGTL+).
FSB Arbitration.
SMBus (System Management Bus). This is an introduction to the SMBus. A detailed description of the SMBus is outside the scope of this book.
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