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pins of all Pentium II Xeon processor system bus
agents.
9.1.6.
BCLK (I)
The BCLK (Bus Clock) signal determines the bus
frequency. All Pentium II Xeon processor system bus
agents must receive this signal to drive their outputs
and latch their inputs on the BCLK rising edge.
All external timing parameters are specified with
respect to the BCLK signal.
9.1.7.
BERR# (I/O)
The BERR# (Bus Error) signal is asserted to indicate
an unrecoverable error without a bus protocol
violation. It may be driven by all Pentium II Xeon
processor system bus agents, and must connect the
appropriate pins of all such agents, if used. However,
Pentium II Xeon processors do not observe
assertions of the BERR# signal.
BERR# assertion conditions are configurable at a
system level. Assertion options are defined by the
following options:
Enabled or disabled.
Asserted optionally for internal errors along with
IERR#.
Asserted optionally by the request initiator of a
bus transaction after it observes an error.
Asserted by any bus agent when it observes an
error in a bus transaction.
9.1.8.
BINIT# (I/O)
The BINIT# (Bus Initialization) signal may be
observed and driven by all Pentium II Xeon
processor system bus agents, and if used must
connect the appropriate pins of all such agents. If the
BINIT# driver
is
enabled
configuration, BINIT# is asserted to signal any bus
condition that prevents reliable future information.
during
power
on
If BINIT# observation is enabled during power-on
configuration, and BINIT# is sampled asserted, all
bus state machines are reset and any data which
was in transit is lost. All agents reset their rotating ID
for bus arbitration to the state after reset, and internal
count information is lost. The L1 and L2 caches are
not affected.
If BINIT# observation is disabled during power-on
configuration, a central agent may handle an
assertion of BINIT# as appropriate to the Machine
Check Architecture (MCA) of the system.
9.1.9.
BNR# (I/O)
The BNR# (Block Next Request) signal is used to
assert a bus stall by any bus agent who is unable to
accept new bus transactions. During a bus stall, the
current
bus
owner
cannot
transactions.
issue
any
new
Since multiple agents might need to request a bus
stall at the same time, BNR# is a wire-OR signal
which must connect the appropriate pins of all
Pentium II Xeon processor system bus agents. In
order to avoid wire-OR glitches associated with
simultaneous edge transitions driven by multiple
drivers, BNR# is activated on specific clock edges
and sampled on specific clock edges.
9.1.10.
BP[3:2]# (I/O)
The BP[3:2]# (Breakpoint) signals are outputs from
the processor that indicate the status of breakpoints.
9.1.11.
BPM[1:0]# (I/O)
The BPM[1:0]# (Breakpoint Monitor) signals are
breakpoint and performance monitor signals. They
are outputs from the processor which indicate the
status of breakpoints and programmable counters
used for monitoring processor performance.
9.1.12.
BPRI# (I)
The BPRI# (Bus Priority Request) signal is used to
arbitrate for ownership of the Pentium II Xeon
processor system bus. It must connect the
appropriate pins of all Pentium II Xeon processor
system bus agents. Observing BPRI# active (as
asserted by the priority agent) causes all other
agents to stop issuing new requests, unless such
requests are part of an ongoing locked operation.
The priority agent keeps BPRI# asserted until all of
its requests are completed, then releases the bus by
deasserting BPRI#.
9.1.13.
BR0# (I/O), BR[3:1]# (I)
The BR[3:1]# (Bus Request) pins drive the
BREQ[3:0]# signals on the system. The BR[3:0]#