About This Manual


This manual describes the MIPS R10000 RISC microprocessor (also referred to as the processor in this book).

Glossary

Certain specialized terms used in this book are defined in the Glossary at the end of this manual.

Stylistic Conventions

A brief note on some of the stylistic conventions used in this book: bits, fields, and registers of interest from a software perspective are italicized (such as the BE bit in the Config register).

Signal names of more importance from a hardware point of view are rendered in bold (such as Reset*). The asterisk appended to the signal name (as in Reset*) indicates the signal is low-active.

A range of bits uses a colon as a separator; for instance, (15:0) represents the 16-bit range that runs from bit 0, inclusive, through bit 15. In some places an ellipsis (15...0) or partial ellipsis (15..0) may used in place of a colon for visibility.

Unfamiliar terms presented for the first time are printed in bold letters, and are followed as closely as possible by a definition or description.

Getting MIPS Documents On-Line

The information in this manual, and other MIPS-related product information, is also available over the Word Wide Web at:

http://www.mips.com

Requests can also be e-mailed to webmaster@mti.sgi.com.

MIPS documents are also available for retrieval on-line, through the file transport protocol (FTP). To retrieve them, follow the steps below. The text you are to type is shown in Courier Bold font; the computer's responses are in shown in Courier Regular font.

1. First, place yourself in the directory on your system within which you want to store the retrieved files. Do this by typing:

cd <directory_you_want_file_to_be_in>

2. Access the MIPS document server, sgigate, through FTP by typing:

ftp sgigate.sgi.com

3. The server tells you when you are connected for FTP by responding:

Connected to sgigate.sgi.com.

4. Next (after some announcements) the server asks you to log in by requesting a name and then a password.

Name (sgigate.sgi.com:<login_name>):

5. Login by typing anonymous for your name and your electronic mail address for your password.

Name (sgigate.sgi.com:<login_name>): anonymous

331 Guest login ok, type your name as password.

Password: your_email_address

6. The system indicates you have logged in by supplying an FTP prompt:

ftp>

7. Go to the pub/doc directory by typing:

ftp> cd pub/doc

8. You can take a look at the contents of the doc directory by listing them:

ftp> ls

9. You will find several subdirectories, such as R4200, R8000, and R10000. When you find the subdirectory you want, cd into that subdirectory and retrieve the file you want by typing:

get <filename>

10. This copies the file from sgigate back to your system.

11. When you have retrieved all the files you want, exit from ftp by typing quit:

ftp> quit

12. If the file was encoded for transmission, you must decode it, after retrieval, by typing:

uudecode <filename>

13. If the file was compressed for transmission, you must uncompress it, after retrieval, by typing:

uncompress <filename>

14. If you tarred the file, type:

tar xvof <filename>



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