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ICH8/ICH9—NVM Information Guide
1.0
Non-Volatile Memory (NVM)
1.1
Introduction
The document is intended for designs using the 10/100/1000 Mb/s LAN controller that
is integrated into the Intel
®
I/O Control Hub 8 or I/O Control Hub 9 (ICH8/ICH9)
device.
The Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) space is used for hardware and software configuration.
It is read by software to determine and configure specific design features.
Unless otherwise specified, all numbers in this document use the following numbering
convention:
• Numbers that do not have a suffix are decimal (base 10).
• Numbers with a suffix of “h” are hexadecimal (base 16).
• Numbers with a suffix of “b” are binary (base 2).
1.2
NVM Programming Procedure Overview
The LAN NVM shares space on an SPI Flash device (or devices) along with the BIOS,
Manageability Firmware, and a Flash Descriptor Region. It is programmed through the
ICH8/ICH9. This combined image is shown in
. The Flash Descriptor Region is
used to define vendor specific information and the location, allocated space, and read
and write permissions for each region. The Manageability (ME) Region contains the
code and configuration data for ME functions such as Intel
®
Active Management
Technology, ASF, and Advanced Fan Speed Control. The system BIOS is contained in
the BIOS Region. The ME Region and BIOS Region are beyond the scope of this
document and a more detailed explanation of these areas can be found in the
Intel
®
I/
O Controller Hub 8 (ICH8) Family External Design Specification (ICH8 EDS)
and the
Intel
®
I/O Controller Hub 9 (ICH9) Family External Design Specification (ICH9 EDS)
.
This document describes the LAN image contained in the Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) region.
Fast Ethernet (
82562V
) images are also described.