PM8621-BI PMC-Sierra, Inc., PM8621-BI Datasheet - Page 135

• Manufacturer Part Number: PM8621-BI
• Description: Driver, NSE/SBS Narrowband Chipset Driver
• Manufacturer: PMC-Sierra, Inc.

Proprietary and Confidential to PMC-Sierra, Inc., and for its Customers’ Internal Use
Document ID: PMC-2021248, Issue 1
Inputs
Outputs
Returns
Valid States
Side Effects
Sending in-band link messages: nbcsIlcTxMsg
This function is used to initiate the transmission of one or more in-band messages on one or more
links for a given device (SBS or NSE) in the chipset. User can send arbitrary number of messages
in one request as specified by
links.
pTxBufDesc
transmitted. The field,
transmit, 1- protect transmit; for NSE, the link descriptor is the port number) on which to
transmit, the size of this buffer (
On return, the
points to an array of descriptors, one for each port on which messages are to be
bufSz
rxHandle
pTxHandle
linkDesc
pNumMsg
pNumMsg
Success =
Failure =
NBCS_ACTIVE, NBCS_INACTIVE
None
field contains the number of bytes transmitted on that link.
linkDesc,
NBCS_ERR_INVALID_DEVICE_STATE
NBCS_ERR_INVALID_ARG
NBCS_ERR_ILC_INVALID_OP
NBCS_ERR_POLL_TIMEOUT
NBCS_ERR_DEV_ABSENT
NBCS_ERR_INVALID_DEV
NBCS_SUCCESS
numDesc
bufSz
in this structure indicates the link (for SBS, 0 – working
), and has a pointer to the buffer to be transmitted (
. This function can also initiate transmission on multiple
: device handle (from
: (pointer to )device handle(s) (from
: link descriptor when
: pointer to the buffer that holds the
: pointer to the buffer that holds the
receiving device
nbcsAdd
device(s)
NULL: For SBS, 0 = working receive,
1 = protect receive; 0xff = both links.
For NSE-20G, port number from 0 –
31 and 0-11 for NSE-8G. A 0xff
indicates all ports. When
is non-NULL, this indicates the total
number of ports to retrieve.
number of messages stored in FIFO
number of messages stored in FIFO
) of the transmitting
Narrowband Chipset Device Driver Manual
nbcsAdd
pTxHandle
pTxHandle
Application Programming Interface
) of the
is
pBuf
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