6.9 System Interface Requests and Responses
External Requests
External requests are generated by an external agent when it requires a resource within the processor. The following external requests are supported:
- intervention shared request
- intervention exclusive request
- allocate request number request
- invalidate request
- interrupt request
External intervention and invalidate requests require some type of response by the processor.
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