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A History of PC BIOS Code
TO DO: We're planning on providing examples of different BIOS features to show how incredibly complex the code has become since the first PC was designed; another page will highlight a number of the routines at the assembly level of the BOCHS BIOS and a guide to using various tools to see what's inside the compressed BIOS code of a fairly recent motherboards. Introduction It would take a group of accomplished authors working full-time to produce a textbook on the complete history of the PC BIOS in a reasonable amount of time. It will take us much longer to even produce a brief summary of how PC BIOS code has changed over the years. Though we have provided many details on special topics (such as Checksum Bytes and even some assembly listings), we are limited in the research we can conduct and the access we have to different computer types.
BIOS interrupt calls are a facility that DOS programs and some other software, such as boot loaders , use to invoke the facilities of the Basic Input/Output System . Some operating systems also use the BIOS to probe and initialize hardware resources during their early stages of booting . [ edit ] Invoking an interrupt Invoking an interrupt can be done using the INT x86 assembly language instruction.
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Interrupt Jump Table
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Interrupts are special routines that are defined on a per-system basis. This means that the interrupts on one system might be different from the interrupts on another system. Therefore, it is usually a bad idea to rely heavily on interrupts when you are writing code that needs to be portable. [ edit ] What is an Interrupt? Interrupts do exactly what the name suggests: they interrupt the control flow of the x86 processor. When an interrupt is triggered by an event (internal or external), the processor does a few things before the interrupt is serviced.
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Bios - BIOS Central
BIOS means Basic Input Output System. BIOS is actually firmware, the software that is programmed into a ROM (Read-Only Memory) chip built onto the motherboard of a computer. BIOS is what makes the system run an initial Power-On Self-Test of the computer, initialize circuits, load the boot program from the boot disk, and then handle low-level I/O to peripheral controllers such as keyboard and display. UPDATE : We have a lot of exciting changes planned for the near future, so be sure to join our mailing list to be notified when they are ready. Scope of This Web Site
BIOS Data Area
BDA - BIOS Data Area - PC Memory Map Address Size Description 00:00 256dwords Interrupt vector table 30:00 256bytes Stack area used during post and bootstrap 40:00 word COM1 port address 40:02 word COM2 port address 40:04 word COM3 port address 40:06 word COM4 port address 40:08 word LPT1 port address 40:0A word LPT2 port address 40:0C word LPT3 port address 40:0E word LPT4 port address (except PS/2) Extended BIOS Data Area segment (PS/2, see EBDA ) 40:10 2 bytes Equipment list flags (see INT 11 ) |7|6|5|4|3|2|1|0| 40:10 (value in INT 11 register AL) | | | | | | | `- IPL diskette installed | | | | | | `-- math coprocessor | | | | |-+--- old PC system board RAM
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Welcome to coreboot - coreboot
coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload . With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly from firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or UEFI . This allows for systems to only include the features necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space required.