The Previous Chapter

The previous chapter provided a detailed description of device ROMs associated with PCI, PCI Express, and PCI-X functions. This included the following topics:

  • device ROM detection.

  • internal code/data format.

  • shadowing.

  • initialization code execution.

  • interrupt hooking.

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