17. CPU Exceptions

17.2 Exception Vector Locations


The Cold Reset, Soft Reset, and NMI exceptions are always vectored to the dedicated Cold Reset exception vector at an uncached and unmapped address. Addresses for all other exceptions are a combination of a vector offset and a base address.

The boot-time vectors (when BEV = 1 in the Status register) are at uncached and unmapped addresses. During normal operation (when BEV = 0) the regular exceptions have vectors in cached address spaces; Cache Error is always at an uncached address so that cache error handling can bypass a suspect cache.

The exception vector assignments for the R10000 processor shown in Table 17-1; the addresses are the same as for the R4400.

Table 17-1 Exception Vector Addresses




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