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PCI and Expansion ROM
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- From: Michael.Bender@Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Bender)
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 12:08:47 -0800 (PDT)
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> From gilbert@lanworks.com Fri Aug 9 11:48:07 1996
>
> All the messages regarding "Int 13 and the BAR" are interesting to us
> because we develop BootROMs for different NIC vendors. We have developed
> a number of PCI BootROMs (around 10) and came across several BIOS issues
> that I am listing below:
(list of "creative" BIOS implementations deleted for brevity).
All the more reason to quickly adopt VOF/OpenBOOT and stop worrying about
what the engineers at BIOS-R-Us were thinking when they designed their boot
BIOS code.
mike