{"id":1441,"date":"2026-08-15T18:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:42:04","slug":"bios-chipset-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/blog\/2026\/08\/15\/bios-chipset-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOS\/Chipset Underway&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently I&#8217;m working on getting a minimal PC style BIOS together and booting C code from my FPGA designs. This is separate to the customised C tool chain I use for 64-bit development, so I may release a fork of a legacy compiler (which is also a bit more complete than my own) to go with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once this is complete I should be able to progress more rapidly with improved CPUs and then eventually with starting to port more of my operating system. The operating system won&#8217;t run on my current chipset though, I decided to moving to testing on smaller, 8-bit soft CPUs so I could ensure the base hardware &amp; BIOS layers would be free from the pitfalls of larger CPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This obviously doesn&#8217;t mean work on my 64-bit stack is obsolete or retired, just that I&#8217;ll finish some more basics before doing more work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I&#8217;m working on getting a minimal PC style BIOS together and booting C code from my FPGA designs. This is separate to the customised C tool chain I use for 64-bit development, so I may release a fork of a legacy compiler (which is also a bit more complete than my own) to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}