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Re: Finally! A coherent question! Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS

From Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject Re: Finally! A coherent question! Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS
Date 2026-05-22 11:17 -0700
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On 5/22/26 04:10, Louis Ohland wrote:
> Kevin, in my years of fame 'n glory, I foundt that you had to know 
> enough about the problem to ask an intelligent question. So it sux if 
> one can only detect a problem, but cannot describe it with clinical 
> precision...

The typical case of this was for NICs and storage controllers to install 
boot ROMs.  I think it is generally the INT 13H hook?  Interesting 
project: https://github.com/Manawyrm/nvme-int13h-optionrom

> Kevin Bowling wrote:
>> So does it carry a BIOS hook and "install" itself on Intel systems? 
>> That was "common" on PC hardware later on.  I am not familiar, someone 
>> with more BIOS expertise will have to weigh in.

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Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-05-20 22:51 -0500
  Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-05-20 21:53 -0700
    It depends... Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-05-21 08:38 -0500
      Re: It depends... Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-05-21 19:24 -0700
        Finally! A coherent question! Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-05-22 06:10 -0500
          Re: Finally! A coherent question! Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-05-22 11:17 -0700
    Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-05-21 08:50 -0500
      Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-05-21 11:26 -0700
        Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-05-21 16:33 -0500
          Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-05-21 15:46 -0700
  Re: Genesis device: The emergence of Corvette support in Complex BIOS Rick Ekblaw <ekblaw@vnet.ibm.com> - 2026-05-21 18:57 -0400

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