Intel announces a BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS)
Intel announces a BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS)
Intel has announced the release of its BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS), which can be used to check how the BIOS configured platform hardware in a system or to override the BIOS configuration using a known-good configuration. BITS is built atop a modified GRUB2 bootloader and the source for BITS (and the GRUB2 modifications) can be found on the project's download page (with a Git repository coming soon). "In addition to those changes to GRUB2 itself, BITS includes
configuration files which build a menu exposing the various BITS
functionality, including the test suites, hardware configuration, and
exploratory tools. These scripts detect your system's CPU, and provide
menu entries for all the available functionality on your hardware
platform. You can also access all of the new commands we've added
directly via the command line.
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