Dell PowerEdge 1550 Self-study Manual
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DCSE: PowerEdge 1550 Self-Study Version 0.3, 4 December, 2000Page 64 DellTechnical AppendixFeaturesBIOSThe PowerEdge 1550 BIOS supports mainstream BIOS features. Some ofthese are described here.PnP 1.02aPnP is an acronym for Plug and Play. The PnP specification presents amechanism to provide automatic configuration capability to IndustryStandard Architecture (ISA) cards thus enabling full Plug and Play in thePC. The essential elements of Plug and Play ISA are:• Isolate the ISA card• Read the card's resource data• Identify the card and configure its resources• Locate a driver for the cardIn order for a system to be PnP compliant it must have a PnP compatibleBIOS, PnP compatible devices, and a PnP compatible operating system.The PnP 1.02a specification details how a PnP BIOS, PnP devices, and aPnP operating system operate together to allow automatic configuration ofthe devices.ESCD 1.02aThe ESCD 1.02a specification provides an extension for the PnP BIOS inwhich to store the PnP information.MP 1.4The MP (MultiProcessor) 1.4 specification defines how Intel processorscan be used to design IBM PC compatible systems that utilize theresources of more than one processor.The MP specification includes the following features:• MP compatible systems will run all uni-processor compiled binarieswithout recompiling.• Support for symmetric multiprocessing with one or more processors thatare Intel architecture instruction set compatible.• Support for symmetric I/O interrupt handling with the APIC, amultiprocessor interrupt controller. |
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