A.1 Debug Code Table

Code

Description

CPU INIT

CPU Initiation

DET CPU

Test CMOS R/W functionality.

 

Early chipset initialization:

CHIPINIT

-Disable shadow RAM

-Disable L2 cache (socket 7 or below)

 

 

-Program basic chipset registers

DET DRAM

Detect memory

-Auto-detection of DRAM size, type and ECC.

DC FCODE

-Auto-detection of L2 cache (socket 7 or below)

Expand compressed BIOS code to DRAM

EFSHADOW

Call chipset hook to copy BIOS back to E000 & F000 shadow RAM.

DC XCODE

Expand the Xgroup codes locating in physical address 1000:0

INIT IO

Initial Superio_Early_Init switch.

CLR SCRN

1. Blank out screen

2. Clear CMOS error flag

 

INIT8042

1. Clear 8042 interface

2. Initialize 8042 self-test

 

ENABLEKB

1. Test special keyboard controller for Winbond 977 series Super I/O chips.

2. Enable keyboard interface.

 

 

1. Disable PS/2 mouse interface (optional).

DIS MS

2. Auto detect ports for keyboard & mouse followed by a port & interface

swap (optional).

 

 

3. Reset keyboard for Winbond 977 series Super I/O chips.

R/W FSEG

Test F000h segment shadow to see whether it is R/W-able or not. If test

fails, keep beeping the speaker.

 

DET FLASH

Auto detect flash type to load appropriate flash R/W codes into the run time

area in F000 for ESCD & DMI support.

 

TESTCMOS

Use walking 1’s algorithm to check out interface in CMOS circuitry. Also set

real-time clock power status, and then check for override.

 

PRG CHIP

Program chipset default values into chipset. Chipset default values are

MODBINable by OEM customers.

INIT CLK

Initial Early_Init_Onboard_Generator switch.

CHECKCPU

Detect CPU information including brand, SMI type (Cyrix or Intel) and CPU

level (586 or 686).

 

INTRINIT

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

interrupts are directed to SPURIOUS_INT_HDLR & S/W interrupts to

REC MPS

SPURIOUS_soft_HDLR.

Initial EARLY_PM_INIT switch.

Reserved

Load keyboard matrix (notebook platform)

Reserved

HPM initialization (notebook platform)

 

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

SET FDD

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

INITINT9

-Search for a valid VGA device & VGA BIOS, and put it nto C000:0.

Initialize INT 09 buffer

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