A decent paper from Intel to study

[Kyösti Mälkki]

I don't recall the following Intel document being advertised on the
list, at least recently.

http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/323246.pdf
> Minimal Intel Architecture Boot Loader
>
> Bare Bones Functionality Required for Booting an
> Intel Architecture Platform
>
> If a developer wants to write their own BIOS on IA architecture, then
> they have to gather the appropriate documents (which aren’t always
> known) and guess the order that the items listed must be done in.
>
> There currently isn’t one document that describes all the items that
> need to be done in one place, nor is the order of initialization
> described anywhere.
>
> There are also many legacy devices that must be initialized and
> finding documentation on them is challenging.
>
> This document is an attempt to document the order, the minimum steps
> required, and generate a central repository of the various documents
> that contain the technical details of each technology / component of a
> typical platform.

[Peter Stuge]

Kyösti Mälkki wrote:
> I don't recall the following Intel document being advertised on the
> list, at least recently.
>
> http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/323246.pdf

Thanks for the link! Svante's thesis has a bit more detail, and the
Intel doc has references to BWG and MRC which as we know aren't so
easy to come by, but it's still a nice overview.

//Peter