On 23Apr16:1717+0000, David L. Craig wrote:

> On 23Apr16:1542+0000, Farley, Peter wrote:
> 
> > A question out of pure curiosity: In the z16 version of PoOP (SA22-7832-13) 
> > there is mention in the "Summary of Changes in Fourteenth Edition" section 
> > of this enhancement:
> > 
> > Mapped-I/O-addressing facility [PCI ONLY]
> > 
> > I can find no other reference to such a facility anywhere in that document.
> > 
> > Does anyone know what that item refers to?
> > 
> > Peter
> 
> That technology is an intruder from the x86 line of
> processing.  It it's a legitimate change, there should
> be a whole lot of explanation somewhere.  In the IBM
> deployment, it might reside below the PoPs realm entirely.
> PCI seems to mean the same as in the x86 domain, thus an
> interface type for motherboard extension cards, including
> the PCI/e specification.  Is PCI a PRQ?  Does IBM still
> market facilities for x86 coprocessing within Z boxen?

Sigh... s/It it/If it/ and s/PRQ/RPQ/

Everything you ever wanted to know about PCI and memory
mapped I/O (MMIO) in one post:
https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/system-address-map-initialization-in-x86x64-architecture-part-1-pci-based-systems/
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