Talk:Option ROM
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Hmmm. have we forgot that option roms do the x86 code too? they're not just firmware, they are CPU code!
Cassette BASIC or network boot ROM
Obviously this section should be about the much more relevant and widespread network boot ROM, with a brief history of IBM Cassette BASIC as an example. This article on ROM should not be solely about the PCs with IBM-clone/"Wintel" heritage. For example, it is not made clear that INT 18H and 19H are specific to IBM models, at a time when there were many different 8-bit computers using different cassette interfaces. I may try to change this in the near future. For "network boot ROM," which, I would assume, applies to many mainframes and non-PC computers, it seems a little silly to share the heading with Cassette BASIC, which was ephemeral and unknown and used even by early IBM-clone adopters. Please, someone with knowledge of non-PC Boot ROMs should contribute to round out this section, at least. Cuvtixo (talk) 17:55, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
UEFI
This article completely misses how the option ROMs are used/initialized in case of UEFI-only system. --Yuriz (talk) 11:18, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
BEV pointer
The Identifier BEV is used several times in the article, but nowhere is it explained. The only clue is, that it seems to be a pointer, but the meaning isn't explained. --IT-Compiler (talk) 23:18, 27 January 2022 (UTC)