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Kontron BIOS Extensions
21.9
Besides the Phoenix System BIOS, the MOPS/386A comes with a few BIOS extensions that
support special features. All extensions are located in the onboard flash EEPROM. Some
extensions are permanently available; some are loaded if required during boot up.
Supported features include:
JIDA standard
Remote Control feature (JRC)
Silicon disk extension
Onboard LAN RPL ROM
DOT-matrix LCD
Matrix-keyboard
All enabled BIOS extensions require shadow RAM. They will be loaded into the same 32K
shadowed memory block, if possible. However, if the system memory cannot find free
memory space because all the memory is already used for add-on peripherals, the BIOS
extensions do not load.
JIDA BIOS extension
21.9.1.
The JUMPtec Intelligent Device Architecture (JIDA) BIOS extension is not a true extension
BIOS. It is part of the system BIOS and is located in the F-segment after boot up. It is
permanently available and supports the JIDA 16-bit standard. It is a software interrupt
15hex driven programmers interface and offers lots of board information functions. For
detailed information about programming, refer to the JIDA specification and a source code
example (JIDAI???.ZIP), which you can find at the Kontron Web site. The three question
marks represent the revision number of the file. You also can contact technical support for
this file.
For other operating systems, special drivers (JIDAIA??.ZIP) are available. You can
download the zip file from the Kontron Web site.
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