BITS
| Author(s) | Burt Triplett (burt@pbjtriplett.org) Josh Triplett (josh@joshtriplett.org) |
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| Tag(s) | bios, scripting engine, interface |
| License | ??? |
| Python versions | 2.x |
| Platforms | win/lin |
| Processors (Architecture) | x86 |
| Description | The Intel BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS) provides a bootable pre-OS environment for testing BIOSes and in particular their initialization of Intel processors, hardware, and technologies. BITS can verify your BIOS against many Intel recommendations. In addition, BITS includes Intel's official reference code as provided to BIOS, which you can use to override your BIOS's hardware initialization with a known-good configuration, and then boot an OS. BITS supports scripting via Python, and includes Python APIs to access various low-level functionality of the hardware platform, including ACPI, CPU and chipset registers, PCI, and PCI Express. You can write scripts to explore and test platform functionality, using the full power of Python in 32-bit ring 0, without an OS in the way, and without recompiling BITS or writing custom C code. |
| Tools | ??? |
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