Revision History - Intel ITANIUM ARCHITECTURE - SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS MANUAL VOLUME 1 REV 2.3 Manual

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of manuals describes the Intel 32-bit architecture. They are available from the Intel
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Numbers 243190, 243191and 243192.
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This document (Document number 245358) defines general information necessary
to compile, link, and execute a program on an Itanium architecture-based
operating system.
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This document (Document number 245359) specifies requirements to develop
platform firmware for Itanium architecture-based systems.
The following document can be downloaded at the Unified EFI Forum website at
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• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification – This document defines
a new model for the interface between operating systems and platform firmware.
1.7

Revision History

Date of
Revision
March 2010
1:8
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64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual – This set
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Itanium Software Conventions and Runtime Architecture Guide –
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Itanium Processor Family System Abstraction Layer Specification –
Revision
Number
2.3 Added information about illegal virtualization optimization combinations and
IIPA requirements.
Added Resource Utilization Counter and PAL_VP_INFO.
PAL_VP_INIT and VPD.vpr changes.
New PAL_VPS_RESUME_HANDLER parameter to indicate RSE Current
Frame Load Enable setting at the target instruction.
PAL_VP_INIT_ENV implementation-specific configuration option.
Minimum Virtual address increased to 54 bits.
New PAL_MC_ERROR_INFO health indicator.
New PAL_MC_ERROR_INJECT implementation-specific bit fields.
MOV-to_SR.L reserved field checking.
Added virtual machine disable.
Added variable frequency mode additions to ACPI P-state description.
Removed pal_proc_vector argument from PAL_VP_SAVE and
PAL_VP_RESTORE.
Added PAL_PROC_SET_FEATURES data speculation disable.
Added Interruption Instruction Bundle registers.
Min-state save area size change.
PAL_MC_DYNAMIC_STATE changes.
PAL_PROC_SET_FEATURES data poisoning promotion changes.
ACPI P-state clarifications.
Synchronization requirements for virtualization opcode optimization.
New priority hint and multi-threading hint recommendations.
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