I have been in contact with Intel about obtaining the BIOS specifications for various chipsets (in particular the 430FX which is the chipset of my testing environment), but they seem very reluctant to give them away. I guess it might depend on that a) you normally have to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement to obtain them (which doesn't go well with the fact that I will make the source for the BIOS publicly available) and possibly b) that I'm a private person and not a well recogized BIOS manufacturing company.
Does anyone have a good suggestion as how to solve this issue? I think this is quite a major issue. Even though I think I have a clue on how to do most things (detecting memory size and type (FPM/EDO)), I also believe there are some things that you would actually need the BIOS specification for (atleast so I don't have to _guess_ how to do some things).
I believe some of you here (professional BIOS programmers) have read these specifications. Can you give any hint to how much information these specifications contain and how vital that information is? Also, is it possible to obtain that information for any other source?
/ Niklas
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