ali hagigat wrote:
BIOS chip is not connected to CPU directly after reset!!
See http://stuge.se/pc2010.png for a sketch of the components in a contemporary PC. The boot flash is very far away from the CPU.
When CPU gets ready to read from F000:FFF0, this request travels to BIOS chip.
Yes. It works because all components along the way are hardwired to decode accesses to the flash chip when they come out of reset.
//Peter