The datasheet of Intel 82574 GbE Controller gives out the layout of NIC's NVM (Non-Volatile Memory), and the "APT uCode Pointer" field (word 0x2a) seems to be a pointer to some code. So, I'm curious about when these codes get invoked and what dose these code do?

I have dumped the NVM of my 82574L NIC by flashrom, and the contents are listed below (from offset 0xa0 to 0x12b are the ucodes):

00000000h: 00 1B 21 32 10 41 20 04 46 F7 80 10 FF FF FF FF
00000010h: 69 E4 03 81 6B 02 1F A0 86 80 D3 10 FF FF 58 9C
00000020h: 00 00 01 20 94 7E FF FF 00 10 48 00 00 00 04 27
00000030h: C9 6C 50 31 3E 07 0B 46 84 2D 40 01 00 F0 06 07
00000040h: 00 60 00 71 08 14 FF FF 01 4D EC 92 5C FC 83 F0
00000050h: 28 00 33 02 50 00 1F 7D 61 19 53 04 A0 00 FF FF
00000060h: 00 01 00 40 15 13 03 40 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
00000070h: FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 30 01 FF FF C5 1E
00000080h: FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
00000090h: FF FF FF FF 00 C7 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
000000a0h: 00 00 1F 38 0A 00 04 00 80 02 00 20 FF FF FF 7F
000000b0h: 00 00 1F 38 08 00 04 00 00 00 1F 38 09 00 04 00
000000c0h: 00 00 3F 0A 14 00 20 00 01 7E 5F 10 3F 00 20 00
000000d0h: 00 7C 9F 61 00 08 00 00 00 7C 5F 62 00 00 30 00
000000e0h: 01 04 E6 08 CA FA E3 7F 02 07 00 20 02 04 06 09
000000f0h: 03 04 26 09 01 7A E4 7F 81 03 00 20 0E 7A E4 7F
00000100h: 02 00 1F 38 C4 04 04 00 0E 08 26 08 04 02 89 10
00000110h: 10 04 26 08 06 02 49 10 01 12 49 10 00 00 1F 38
00000120h: 30 03 04 00 00 00 1F 38 07 00 04 00 FF FF FF FF
00000130h: FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

The datasheet seems mean that the ucode are composed of 4 bytes instructions, so what's the risc core type (MIPS/PPC...) inside Intel 82574 GbE Controller?

Thanks!

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