All,
not exactly an openbios question, but judging by the traffic on the list, I'm sure someone has an answer -
I'm trying to add a PnP header structure to a BIOS-image, and need to have the Bios_Connect_Vector and possibly the Static_ Resource_Information_Vector called immediately after POST. This is (as far as I can tell) what a PnP BIOS will do according to the spec (various documents, approx. 1994)
The card itself is NOT PnP, but the software on the EPROM will be. Problem is that the BIOS on my system (Abit BP6, Award BIOS) doesn't seem to (1) either recognise the PnP-header in my BIOS-image or (2) doesn't follow the PnP POST-sequence.
Does anyone have any pointers for me ? Is it a problem if my BIOS-image is placed at C000 (where the video would normally be found) ? I have all the documents, but it looks like my system BIOS (BP6, Award) isn't behaving as it should ?
I had a quick look at the etherboot package, which also has a PnP-header in the BIOS-image - I can't tell if it is being used, though. But the structure looks exactly like what I have coded.
any help would be much appreciated!
regards, Per Jessen, London - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message