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Bios Question

Post by ellison » October 16th, 2016, 8:03 am

I can't find any information about the BIOS, really. I just want to know if it is *nix related. I guess we'll find out in 2038.
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Re: Bios Question

Post by Shadow » October 16th, 2016, 11:52 am

It's written in MIPS assembler directly for the R3000A with some optimised high level code to fit in 512 KB of ROM.
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Re: Bios Question

Post by ellison » October 16th, 2016, 2:30 pm

Thanks, Shadow. Can you point me in the right direction for some more reading material on the BIOS?
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Re: Bios Question

Post by Shadow » October 16th, 2016, 2:38 pm

ellison wrote:Thanks, Shadow. Can you point me in the right direction for some more reading material on the BIOS?
What reading material exactly? The BIOS isn't open source. The only material available is anything Google has indexed from crackers and hackers messing with the BIOS via disassembly.
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Re: Bios Question

Post by ellison » October 16th, 2016, 2:51 pm

Seems that way. I was just fishing for more leads on my BIOS retexture fantasy.
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Re: Bios Question

Post by Shadow » October 16th, 2016, 6:12 pm

A friend of mine did that ages ago: viewtopic.php?f=62&t=55
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