/*
    JPC: An x86 PC Hardware Emulator for a pure Java Virtual Machine
    Release Version 2.4

    A project from the Physics Dept, The University of Oxford

    Copyright (C) 2007-2010 The University of Oxford

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
    the Free Software Foundation.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 
    Details (including contact information) can be found at: 

    jpc.sourceforge.net
    or the developer website
    sourceforge.net/projects/jpc/

    Conceived and Developed by:
    Rhys Newman, Ian Preston, Chris Dennis

    End of licence header
*/

package org.jpc.emulator.pci;

/**
 * A region provided by a PCI device that can at runtime be mapped into one of
 * the emulated machines address spaces.
 * @author Chris Dennis
 */
public interface IORegion
{
    public static final int PCI_ADDRESS_SPACE_MEM = 0x00;
    public static final int PCI_ADDRESS_SPACE_IO = 0x01;
    public static final int PCI_ADDRESS_SPACE_MEM_PREFETCH = 0x08;

    /**
     * Returns the starting address of the area that this region is mapped to.
     * @return starting address of this region.
     */
    public int getAddress();

    /**
     * Returns the length of this region in bytes.
     * @return size in bytes.
     */
    public long getSize();

    /**
     * Returns an integer representing the type of this region.
     * @return integer type.
     */
    public int getType();

    /**
     * Returns the region number or index of this region.
     * <p>
     * In any given PCI device, <code>IORegion</code>s are not required to be
     * contiguous.
     * @return region number.
     */
    public int getRegionNumber();

    /**
     * Tells this region that it has been mapped into it's associated address 
     * space at the given address.
     * @param address start address of the mapping.
     */
    public void setAddress(int address);
}