Intel ITANIUM ARCHITECTURE - SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS MANUAL VOLUME 1 REV 2.3 Manual page 902

Chapter 9, "IA-32 Interruption Vector Descriptions"
and intercepts that can occur during IA-32 instruction set execution in the Itanium
System Environment.
Chapter 10, "Itanium
IA-32 Applications"
System Environment from the perspective of an Itanium architecture-based operating
system.
Chapter 11, "Processor Abstraction Layer"
processor implementation-dependent features.
1.2.2 Part 2: System Programmer's Guide
Chapter 1, "About the System Programmer's Guide"
section of the system architecture guide.
Chapter 2, "MP Coherence and Synchronization"
synchronization primitives and the Itanium memory ordering model.
Chapter 3, "Interruptions and Serialization"
execution around interruptions and what state is preserved and made available to
low-level system code when interruptions are taken.
Chapter 4, "Context Management"
Itanium register contents and state. This chapter also describes system architecture
mechanisms that allow an operating system to reduce the number of registers that
need to be spilled/filled on interruptions, system calls, and context switches.
Chapter 5, "Memory Management"
Chapter 6, "Runtime Support for Control and Data Speculation"
system support that is required for control and data speculation.
Chapter 7, "Instruction Emulation and Other Fault Handlers"
instruction emulation handlers that Itanium architecture-based operating systems are
expected to support.
Chapter 8, "Floating-point System Software"
Itanium architecture handle floating-point numeric exceptions and how the software
stack provides complete IEEE-754 compliance.
Chapter 9, "IA-32 Application Support"
architecture-based operating system needs to provide to host IA-32 applications.
Chapter 10, "External Interrupt Architecture"
architecture with a focus on how external asynchronous interrupt handling can be
controlled by software.
Chapter 11, "I/O Architecture"
issues and support for the existing IA-32 I/O port space.
Volume 3: About this Manual
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Architecture-based Operating System Interaction Model with
defines the operation of IA-32 instructions within the Itanium
describes how operating systems need to preserve
introduces various memory management strategies.
describes the support an Itanium
describes the I/O architecture with a focus on platform
lists IA-32 exceptions, interrupts
describes the firmware layer which abstracts
gives an introduction to the second
describes multiprocessing
describes how the processor serializes
describes the operating
describes a variety of
discusses how processors based on the
describes the external interrupt
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