Volume 2, Part 1: Intel
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Itanium
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System Environment
2:13
Intel
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Itanium
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System Environment
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As described in
Section 2.1, “Operating Environments” on page 1:13
, the Itanium
System Environment supports Itanium architecture-based operating systems. The
architectural model also supports a mixture of IA-32 and Itanium architecture-based
application code within an Itanium architecture-based operating system.
The system environment determines the set of processor system resources seen by the
operating system. These resources include: virtual memory management, physical
memory attributes, external interrupt mechanisms, exception and interrupt delivery,
machine check architectures, debug, performance monitoring, control registers, and
the set of privileged instructions.
2.1
Processor Boot Sequence
shows the defined boot sequence. Unlike IA-32 processors, which power up
in 32-bit Real Mode, processors in the Itanium processor family power up in the
Itanium System Environment running Itanium architecture-based code. Processor
initialization, testing, memory, and platform initialization/testing are performed by
processor firmware. Mechanisms are provided to execute Real Mode IA-32 boot BIOSs
and device drivers during the boot sequence.
Figure 2-1.
System Environment Boot Flow
Processor
Test & Initialization
Platform Test &
Initialization
Itanium
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architecture-based
(Intel
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Itanium
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(Intel
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Itanium
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or
Intel
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Itanium
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Reset
System Environment
Instructions)
IA-32 Instructions)
OS Boot
(Intel
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Itanium
®
Instructions & IA-32
Instructions)
Summary of Contents for ITANIUM ARCHITECTURE - SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS VOLUME 3 REV 2.3
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Page 33: ...1 22 Volume 1 Part 1 Introduction to the Intel Itanium Architecture ...
Page 57: ...1 46 Volume 1 Part 1 Execution Environment ...
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Page 149: ...1 138 Volume 1 Part 2 About the Optimization Guide ...
Page 191: ...1 180 Volume 1 Part 2 Predication Control Flow and Instruction Stream ...
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Page 380: ...2 132 Volume 2 Part 1 Interruptions ...
Page 398: ...2 150 Volume 2 Part 1 Register Stack Engine ...
Page 486: ...2 238 Volume 2 Part 1 IA 32 Interruption Vector Descriptions ...
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Page 754: ...2 506 Volume 2 Part 2 About the System Programmer s Guide ...
Page 796: ...2 548 Volume 2 Part 2 Interruptions and Serialization ...
Page 808: ...2 560 Volume 2 Part 2 Context Management ...
Page 842: ...2 594 Volume 2 Part 2 Floating point System Software ...
Page 850: ...2 602 Volume 2 Part 2 IA 32 Application Support ...
Page 862: ...2 614 Volume 2 Part 2 External Interrupt Architecture ...
Page 870: ...2 622 Volume 2 Part 2 Performance Monitoring Support ...
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Page 1295: ...3 396 Volume 3 Resource and Dependency Semantics ...
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Page 1494: ...4 192 Volume 4 Base IA 32 Instruction Reference FWAIT Wait See entry for WAIT ...
Page 1647: ...Volume 4 Base IA 32 Instruction Reference 4 345 ROL ROR Rotate See entry for RCL RCR ROL ROR ...
Page 1884: ...4 582 Volume 4 IA 32 SSE Instruction Reference ...
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