Data Sheet

System Manageability—Ethernet Controller I210
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10.7.6.1.6 Get Vendor Defined Message Support Command
The Get Vendor Defined Message type support response of I211 is described in the following table if the
Vendor ID Set Selector equals 0x00:
10.7.6.1.7 Set Endpoint ID Command
The I210 supports the Set EID and Force EID operations defined in the Set Endpoint ID command.
When operating over PCIe, the Set Discovered Flag operation is also supported. As endpoints in the
I210 can be set only through their own interface, Set EID and Force EID are equivalent. The Reset EID
operation is not relevant to the I210.
The Set Endpoint ID response of I211 is described in the following table:
10.8 Manageability Host Interface
This section details host interaction with the manageability portion of the I210. The information within
this section is only available to the host driver, the MC does not have access.
10.8.1 HOST CSR Interface
The software device driver of all functions communicates with the manageability block through CSR
access. The manageability is mapped to address space 0x8800 to 0x8FFF on the slave bus of the
function.
3:5
List of Message Type
numbers
0x02 (NC-SI over MCTP)
0x03 (Ethernet). If pass through is supported.
0x7E (PCIe based VDM messages) - over PCIe only
Byte Description Value
1 Completion Code 0x00
2 Vendor ID Set Selector 0xFF = no more capability sets.
3:5 Vendor ID 0x008086 (PCI id indicator + Intel vendor ID)
6:7 Version 0x0100 (Version 1.0)
Byte Description Value
1 Completion Code 0x00
2 Completion Status
[7:6] = 00 - Reserved
[5:4] = 00 - EID assignment accepted
[3:2] = 00 - Reserved
[1:0] = 00 - Device does not use an EID pool.
3 EID Setting
If the EID setting was accepted, this value will match the EID passed in
the request. Otherwise, this value returns the present EID setting.
4 EID Pool Size Always return a zero.
Byte Description Value