[LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Thu Mar 29 05:46:49 CEST 2007


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:21:11AM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
> Just found this. Gigabyte's DualBios patent:
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=8&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&S1=6651188.UREF.&OS=ref/6651188&RS=REF/6651188

I interpret this to be regarding embedding VGA and SCSI BIOS software
(interface BIOS) backups within the system BIOS, for when an option
ROM causes a system to not start properly.


//Peter




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