GRAPHIC BIOS.pptxVIP

GRAPHIC BIOS. 讲师:沈大树 M.PD2 What’s Video BIOS? Video BIOS – System software that acts as an abstraction layer between Operating System and Graphics hardware – Video BIOS is traditionally located at physical memory location 0xC000h – VBIOS interacts between OS, SBIOS and DOS application by Int 10h function call – Developed in assembly language – Binary is small in size ~ 64Kb Key feature of VBIOS – Initial GPU hardware and setup hardware states and return information – Expose VESA/VGA Functional Interfaces and CHIP vendor proprietary function call – Fix (patch) hardware / software