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14 Intel
®
815E Scalable Performance Board Development Kit Manual
Getting Started
2.3.1 Embedded BIOS for the Intel
®
815E Scalable Performance
Board Development Kit
The Intel
®
815E Scalable Performance Board Development Kit ships pre-installed with Embedded
BIOS* pre-boot firmware from General Software. Embedded BIOS provides an industry-standard
BIOS platform to run any standard operating system, including DOS*, Windows* NT, NT
Embedded*, Windows 95/98, Windows CE, QNX*, VxWorks*, and Linux* among others. The
Embedded BIOS Application Kit (available through General Software) includes complete source
code, a reference manual, and a Windows-based expert system, BIOStart*, to enable easy and rapid
configuration of customized firmware for your Intel* 815E Scalable Performance Board
Development Kit.
The following features of Embedded BIOS have been enabled in the Intel
®
815E Scalable
Performance Board Development Kit:
• SDRAM detection, configuration, and initialization
• Intel
®
815E chipset configuration
• Firmware Hub
• Post codes displayed to port 80H
• Two serial ports, one EPP/ECP parallel port
• PCI bus and device enumeration and configuration
• AGP configuration and initialization
• SMC LPC Super I/O programming
• Pentium
®
III processor microcode update
• Integrated debugger
• Burn-in diagnostics
• Console redirection
• Manufacturing mode
2.3.2 Software
2.3.2.1 BlueCat* Linux
The drive comes pre-loaded with BlueCat Linux. Some of the features of the BlueCat Linux
include:
• A development environment and an operating system for embedded deployment that lets
developers combine specialized, custom-developed software and hardware with off-the-shelf,
third-party Linux applications.
• Configuration to accurately match the requirements of embedded development from small
devices to large-scale multi-processor systems. BlueCat Linux includes a royalty-free, open
source Linux distribution, enhanced with LynuxWorks’ cross-development and embedding
tools that improve quality and reduce development time.
• Stabilization to ensure that a consistent development and deployment environment is available
for the complete lifecycle of an embedded product