Vital Product Data (Vpd) Introduction - Motorola MVME5100 Programmer's Reference Manual

BMVME5100 VPD Reference

Vital Product Data (VPD) Introduction

Vital Product Data (VPD) consists of data items that are pertinent to board
configuration and operation. This appendix includes information on how
to perform various tasks to read, modify and correct Vital Product Data, as
well as general format and content information for this product. For more
detailed instructions, refer to the PPCBug Firmware User's Manual, as
referenced in the
Appendix A of this manual. Information that is contained in the VPD
includes:
How to Read the VPD Information
There are several ways to read VPD information:
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Marketing Product Number (e.g., MVME5100-013x)
Factory Assembly Number (e.g., 01-W3403F01)
Serial number of the specific MVME5100
Processor family number (e.g., 750, 7410, etc.)
Hardware clock frequencies (internal, external, fixed, PCI bus)
Component configuration information (connectors, Ethernet
addresses, FLASH bank ID, L2 cache ID)
Security information (VPD type, version and rev. data, 32-bit crc
protection)
Base address information for various components
Direct Memory Addresses
Interrupt resources
Version command - ver
Information
B
section of
B-1