NVM Information Guide—ICH8
10
1.4.3
Reserved (Word 04h)
1.4.4
Image Version Information (Word 05h)
1.4.5
Reserved (Word 06h)
1.4.6
Reserved (Word 07h)
1.4.7
PBA Low, PBA High (Words 08h and 09h)
The nine digit printed board assembly (PBA) number used for Intel manufactured
adapter cards are stored in a four-byte field. The dash and the first digit of the three-
digit suffix are not stored.
1.4.7.1
PBA Example
If the PBA Number is “123456-003”
then word 08h = 1234h and word 09h = 5603h.
Through the course of hardware changes, the suffix field (byte 4) is incremented. The
purpose of this information is to enable customer support (or any user) to identify the
exact revision level of a product. The software device driver should not rely on this field
to identify the product or its capabilities.
Table 4.
Reserved (Word 04h)
Bit
Name
Default
Description
15:0
Reserved
FFFFh
These bits are reserved and should be set to FFFFh.
Table 5.
Image Version Information (Word 05h)
Bit
Name
Default
Description
15
Reserved
0b
This bit is reserved and should be set to 0b.
14:12
NVM Major Version
--
This field represents the LAN NVM major version number.
11:4
NVM Minor Version
--
This field represents the LAN NVM minor version number.
3:0
Image ID
2h
This field represents the NVM image identification. This field equals
2h (default) for the
82562V
PHY and 0h for the
82566
PHY.
Table 6.
Reserved (Word 06h)
Bit
Name
Default
Description
15:0
Reserved
FFFFh
This field is reserved and should be set to FFFFh.
Table 7.
Reserved (Word 07h)
Bit
Name
Default
Description
15:0
Reserved
FFFFh
This field is reserved and should be set to FFFFh.
