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10 years ago

PCI express and non maskable interrupts.

Hi

I have a Cyclone IV GX as a PCI express endpoint and I am wondering if it is possible to generate a non maskable interrupt to a root port for debugging purpose?

Thank you

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    10 years ago

    It depends on the root port, and then whether the OS (on the root port) allows you to (easily) access to generating NMI from an MSI-X interrupt.

    If you read section 10.11 of 'Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1' (253668-053US) you'll see that MSI-X can generate NMI on Intel cpus.