IEEE Standard for Boot

• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : IEEE, 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 262 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 004
• Soggetto topico: Computer firmware
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: Firmware is the read-only-memory (ROM)-based software that controls a computer between the time it is turned on and the time the primary operating system takes control of the machine. Open Firmware provides the following: a mechanism for loading and executing programs (such as operating systems) from disks, tapes, network interfaces, and other devices; an ISA-independent method for identifying devices "plugged in" to expansion buses and for providing firmware and diagnostics drivers for these devices; an extensible and programmable command language based on the Forth programming language; methods for managing user-configurable options stored in nonvolatile memory; a "call back" interface allowing other programs to make use of Open Firmware services; and debugging tools for hardware, firmware, firmware drivers, and system software.
• Titolo autorizzato: IEEE Standard for Boot
• ISBN: 0-7381-1194-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910147060803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II