9.2 KiB
Heathrow ASIC
The Heathrow ASIC is an intergrated I/O controller designed for use in Power Macintosh G3 computers.
Its predecessors are Grand Central and O'Hare ASICs used in other Power Macintosh computers. As those names suggest, Apple engineers liked to name their I/O controllers after airports and train stations.
Heathrow and its siblings are collectively referred to as mac-io devices in the OpenFirmware device tree.
Mac I/O family
The purpose of a Mac I/O (MIO) controller is to bring support for Apple legacy I/O hardware to the PCI-based Power Macintosh. That legacy hardware has existed long before Power Macintosh was introduced. It includes:
- versatile interface adapter (VIA)
- Sander-Woz integrated machine (SWIM) that is a floppy disk controller
- CUDA MCU that controls ADB, parameter RAM, realtime clock and power management
- serial communication controller (SCC)
- Macintosh Enhanced SCSI Hardware (MESH)
In the 68k Macintosh era, all this hardware was implemented in separate ICs. In a PCI-compatible Power Macintosh, the above devices are part of the MIO chip itself. MIO's functional blocks implementing the above devices are called cells, i.e. "VIA cell", "SWIM cell" etc.
MIO itself is PCI compliant while the legacy hardware it emulates isn't. MIO occupies 512Kb of the PCI memory space divided into registers space and DMA space. Access to emulated legacy devices is accomplished by reading from/ writing to MIO's PCI address space at predefined offsets.
MIO includes a DMA controller that offers 15 DMA channels implementing Apple's own DMA protocol called descriptor-based DMA (DBDMA).
Official documentation (that is somewhat incomplete and erroneous) can be found in the second chapter of the book "Macintosh Technology in the Common Hardware Reference Platform" by Apple Computer, Inc.
Heathrow I/O modules
Being a Mac I/O compatible device, the Heathrow ASIC contains the following modules/cells:
- VIA cell for establishing communication with the Cuda MCU (separate IC)
- ATA/IDE cell for controlling ATA-3 compatible drives
- enhanced serial communication controller (ESCC cell)
- Ethernet controller cell funnily called bmac
- floppy disk controller (SWIM3 cell)
- SCSI controller (MESH cell)
- integrated DBDMA controller
- interrupt controller
- logic for controlling built-in audio HW
- logic for accessing NVRAM (separate IC)
- logic for controlling a media bay on portables
PCI configuration space registers
| Register name | Default value |
|---|---|
| VendorID | 0x106B (Apple) |
| DeviceID | 0x0010 |
| RevisionID | 0x01 |
| Class code | 0xFF0000 |
It looks like Heathrow supports only one Base Address Register - BAR0. It contains base address of the memory-mapped registers programmed by system software during system initialization.
Memory-mapped registers
Software communicates with the Heathrow ASIC via memory-mapped registers that occupy 512 Kb starting from the base address located in the BAR0 register in the PCI configuration space.
Macintosh firmware configures the Heathrow ASIC to live at address 0xF3000000.
General chip control registers
| Offset | Register name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x10 | InterruptEvents2 | each "1" bit indicates a pending int |
| 0x14 | InterruptMask2 | enabling (1) / disabling(0) of specific ints |
| 0x18 | InterruptClear2 | bit value "1" clears the corresponding int |
| 0x1C | InterruptLevels2 | interrupt status for devices 32...63 |
| 0x20 | InterruptEvents1 | each "1" bit indicates a pending int |
| 0x24 | InterruptMask1 | enabling (1) / disabling(0) of specific ints |
| 0x28 | InterruptClear1 | bit value "1" clears the corresponding int |
| 0x2C | InterruptLevels1 | interrupt status for devices 0...31 |
| 0x30 | UnknownReg30 | Not much is known about this register |
| 0x34 | HeathrowIDs | bits for identifying media bay features? |
| 0x38 | FeatureControl | bits for controlling Heathrow operation |
| 0x3C | AuxControl | auxilary control bits |
Device DMA spaces
| Offset | Size in bytes | Space name |
|---|---|---|
| 0x8000 | 256 | MESH SCSI DMA |
| 0x8100 | 256 | Floppy controller DMA |
| 0x8200 | 256 | Ethernet transmit DMA |
| 0x8300 | 256 | Ethernet receive DMA |
| 0x8400 | 256 | Serial channel A transmit DMA |
| 0x8500 | 256 | Serial channel A receive DMA |
| 0x8600 | 256 | Serial channel B transmit DMA |
| 0x8700 | 256 | Serial channel B receive DMA |
| 0x8800 | 256 | Audio output DMA |
| 0x8900 | 256 | Audio input DMA |
| 0x8A00 | 256 | unassigned DMA ? |
| 0x8B00 | 256 | internal ATA (IDE0) DMA |
| 0x8C00 | 256 | media bay (?) ATA (IDE1) DMA |
| 0x8D00 | 256 | unassigned DMA ? |
| 0x8E00 | 256 | unassigned DMA ? |
| 0x8F00 | 256 | unassigned DMA ? |
Device register spaces
| Offset | Size | Space name | |:--------|------------- :|:----------------------------------------:| | 0x10000 | 4 KB | MESH SCSI controller registers | | 0x11000 | 4 KB | Ethernet (bmac) controller registers | | 0x12000 | 4 KB | Legacy serial (SCC) controller registers | | 0x13000 | 4 KB | Serial (ESCC) controller registers | | 0x14000 | 4 KB | Audio codec registers | | 0x15000 | 4 KB | Floppy (SWIM3) controller registers | | 0x16000 | 8 KB | VIA registers | | 0x20000 | 4 KB | IDE0 registers | | 0x21000 | 4 KB | IDE1 registers | | 0x60000 | 128 KB | NVRAM access |
Registers description
General chip control
Feature control register
Bit names in the table below were pulled from OpenFirmware v2.4. The field "Description" represents my personal attempt to describe the function of those bits based on publicly available Apple and Linux sources.
| Bit # | Active | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | high | in_use_led | "1" enables monitor sense on G3 desktop |
| 1 | low | -mb_pwr | media bay power on/off |
| 2 | high | pci_mb_en | enable media bay PCI (?) |
| 3 | high | ide_mb_en | enable media bay ATA (IDE1) |
| 4 | high | floppy_en | enable floppy disk controller cell |
| 5 | high | ide_int_en | enable internal ATA (IDE0) |
| 6 | low | -ide0_reset | reset internal ATA |
| 7 | low | -mb_reset | reset media bay |
| 8 | high | iobus_enable | not available |
| 9 | high | scc_enable | enable SCC controller cell |
| 10 | high | scsi_cell_en | enable MESH SCSI controller cell |
| 11 | high | swim_cell_en | enable SWIM3 floppy controller cell |
| 12 | high | snd_pwr | not available |
| 13 | high | snd_clk_en | enable sound chip clock (?) |
| 14 | high | scc_a_enable | enable SCC channel A |
| 15 | high | scc_b_enable | enable SCC channel B |
| 16 | low | -port_via | switch VIA cell to portable mode (?) |
| 16 | high | desktop_via | switch VIA cell to desktop mode (?) |
| 17 | low | -pwm | not available |
| 17 | high | mon_id | not available |
| 18 | low | -hookpb | not available |
| 18 | high | mb_cnt | not available |
| 19 | low | -swimiii | floppy controller in SWIM3 mode (?) |
| 19 | high | clonefloppy | floppy controller in PC-compat mode (?) |
| 20 | high | aud22run | not available |
| 21 | high | scsi_linkmode | not available |
| 22 | high | arb_bypass | disable internal PCI arbiter (?) |
| 23 | low | -ide1_reset | reset media bay ATA |
| 24 | high | slow_scc_pclk | not available |
| 25 | high | reset_scc | reset serial (SCC) controller cell |
| 26 | high | mfdc_cell_en | enable PC-compat floppy controller (?) |
| 27 | high | use_mfdc | use PC floppy ctrl instead of SWIM3 ? |
| 29 | high | enet_ctrl_en | enable Ethernet controller cell (?) |
| 30 | high | enet_xcvr_en | enable Ethernet Transceiver (?) |
| 31 | high | enet_reset | reset Ethernet cell |