Power On Self Test

Question

Any good place to learn about POST and how to design and code one? I am a C++ programmer and quite baffeled with the term.

Thanks

Answer 1

You might want to take a look at the code for coreboot, a free software (open source) BIOS project that runs on many different kinds of hardware.

Answer 2

You can checkout the OpenBIOS project.

They have information on numberous opensource bios/firmware implementations. Being open source you can grab the code from svn or read it online for all of them.