Bridge Control (BCTRL) – Offset 3e - 001 - ID:834576 | Intel® 800 Series Chipset Family Platform Controller Hub (PCH), Volume 2

Intel® 800 Series Chipset Family Platform Controller Hub (PCH), Volume 2

ID	Date	Version	Classification
834576	10/10/2024	001	Public

Bridge Control (BCTRL) – Offset 3e

This is the Bridge Control registers. Refer description for each individual field below for more details of the register functionality.

Bit Range	Default	Access	Field Name and Description
15:12	0h	RO	Reserved (RSVD_M) Reserved.
11	0h	RW/V2	Discard Timer SERR Enable (DTSE) Reserved per PCI-Express spec. For PCI Bus Emulation Mode compatibility, if the PCIBEM register is set, this register is RW else it is RO. This register is only maintained for SW compatibility and has no functionality within the port.
10	0h	RO	Discard Timer Status (DTS) Reserved per PCI-Express spec. For PCI Bus Emulation Mode compatibility, this register can remain RO as no secondary discard timer exists that will ever cause it to be set.
9	0h	RW/V2	Secondary Discard Timer (SDT) Reserved per Express spec. For PCI Bus Emulation Mode compatibility, if the PCIBEM register is set, this register is RW else it is RO. This register is only maintained for SW compatibility and has no functionality within the port.
8	0h	RW/V2	Primary Discard Timer (PDT) Reserved per Express spec. For PCI Bus Emulation Mode compatibility, if the PCIBEM register is set, this register is RW else it is RO. This register is only maintained for SW compatibility and has no functionality within the port.
7	0h	RO	Fast Back to Back Enable (FBE) Reserved per Express spec.
6	0h	RW	Secondary Bus Reset (SBR) Triggers a Hot Reset on the PCI-Express port.
5	0h	RW/V2	Master Abort Mode (MAM) Reserved per Express spec. For PCI Bus Emulation Mode compatibility, if the PCIBEM register is set, this register is RW else it is RO. This register is only maintained for SW compatibility and has no functionality within the port.
4	0h	RW	VGA 16-Bit Decode (V16) When set, indicates that the I/O aliases of the VGA range (see BCTRL:VE definition below), are not enabled. 0: Execute 10-bit address decode on VGA I/O accesses. 1: Execute 16-bit address decode on VGA I/O accesses.
3	0h	RW	VGA Enable (VE) When set, the following ranges will be claimed off the backbone by the root port: Memory ranges A0000h-BFFFFh I/O ranges 3B0h - 3BBh and 3C0h - 3DFh, and all aliases of bits 15:10 in any combination of 1s
2	0h	RW	ISA Enable (IE) This bit only applies to I/O addresses that are enabled by the I/O Base and I/O Limit registers and are in the first 64KB of PCI I/O space. If this bit is set, the root port will block any forwarding from the backbone to the device of I/O transactions addressing the last 768 bytes in each 1KB block (offsets 100h to 3FFh).
1	0h	RW	SERR Enable (SE) When set, ERR_COR, ERR_NONFATAL, and ERR_FATAL messages received are forwarded to the backbone. When cleared, they are not.
0	0h	RW	Parity Error Response Enable (PERE) When set, poisoned write TLPs and completions indicating poisoned TLPs will set the SSTS.DPD.