Chapter 3 BIOS Setup
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System Resource Managed by BIOS under X86 Platform
We define three kinds of system resources here: I/O port address, IRQ interrupt
number and DMA number.
DMA
Level
Function
DMA0
DRAM Refresh
DMA1
Unassigned
DMA2 Floppy
Disk
DMA3
Unassigned (sometimes used for hard disk)
DMA4
Used for DMAC Cascade
DMA5
Unassigned
DMA6
Unassigned
DMA7
Unassigned
APIC
Advanced programmable interrupt controller. Most motherboards above P4 level
support APIC and provide more than 16 interrupt sources, like IRQ16 - IRQ23; while
some others can have up to 28 interrupt sources, such as motherboard supporting
PCI-X. However, relevant OS are required to enable that function, and currently, only
the OS above Windows 2000 could support that function.
IO Port Address
There is 64K for the system I/O address space. Each peripheral will occupy portion of
the space. The table below shows the I/O address assignments for part of the devices
of the CPU card. As the address of PCI device (e.g. PCI network card) is configured
by software, it is not listed in this table.