ECM-3612

POST (hex)

Description

15h

Reserved

16h

Initial Early_Init_Onboard_Generator switch.

17h

Reserved

18h

Detect CPU information including brand, SMI type (Cyrix or

 

Intel) and CPU level (586 or 686).

19h

Reserved

1Ah

Reserved

1Bh

Initial interrupts vector table. If no special specified, all H/W

 

interrupts are directed to SPURIOUS_INT_HDLR & S/W

 

interrupts to SPURIOUS_soft_HDLR.

1Ch

Reserved

1Dh

Initial EARLY_PM_INIT switch.

1Eh

Reserved

1Fh

Load keyboard matrix (notebook platform)

20h

Reserved

21h

HPM initialization (notebook platform)

22h

Reserved

23h

1. Check validity of RTC value:

 

e.g. a value of 5Ah is an invalid value for RTC minute.

 

2. Load CMOS settings into BIOS stack. If CMOS checksum fails, use

 

default value instead.

 

3. Prepare BIOS resource map for PCI & PnP use. If ESCD is valid, take

 

into consideration of the ESCD’s legacy information.

 

4. Onboard clock generator initialization. Disable respective clock

 

resource to empty PCI & DIMM slots.

 

5. Early PCI initialization:

 

-Enumerate PCI bus number

 

-Assign memory & I/O resource

 

-Search for a valid VGA device & VGA BIOS, and put it

 

into C000:0.

24h

Reserved

25h

Reserved

26h

Reserved

27h

Initialize INT 09 buffer

28h

Reserved

29h

1. Program CPU internal MTRR (P6 & PII) for 0-640K memory address.

 

2. Initialize the APIC for Pentium class CPU.

 

3. Program early chipset according to CMOS setup. Example: onboard

 

IDE controller.

 

4. Measure CPU speed.

 

5. Invoke video BIOS.

2Ah

Reserved

2Bh

Reserved

2Ch

Reserved

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