Method, controller and apparatus for displaying BIOS debug message
OwnerYi-Hsin Chan, Ming-Hsiang Chouinventors
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Abstract
A method, controller and apparatus for displaying BIOS debug message is disclosed. The method determines a display style for a character code output from a debug port of BIOS according to an attribute code output from the debug port. Moreover, the controller accepts the character code and the attribute code and determines the display style of the character code according to the attribute code. Furthermore, the apparatus drives a display panel to display the character code according to the display style determined by the controller.
Claims33
A method for displaying BIOS debug message, comprising:
- outputting a character code and an attribute code by the BIOS via a debug port;
- and
- determining a displaying style according to the attribute code.
A controller for controlling the BIOS debug message displaying, comprising:
- an input interface, used to receive an attribute code and a character code transmitted from a debug port of the BIOS;
- a decoding module, used to decode the attribute code and the character code so as to output a corresponding displaying control signal and a displaying information;
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- an output interface, used to output the displaying information in a displaying style based on the displaying control signal.
An apparatus for displaying BIOS debug messages, comprising:
- a controller, used to receive an attribute code and a character code transmitted from a debug port of the BIOS, and to control a displaying style of the character code according to the attribute code;
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- a display panel, used to display the character code with the displaying style determined by the controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.