Amibios8 Utilities

Now I must edit a ASRock BIOS, the model is P4VM800. And the Bios Version is AmiBios8. Later, I was used AMIBCP 7.5 and CBROM. But for editing AmiBios 8 i law that for edit amibios modules i need Visual eBios, becouse the amibcp 2.43 can not edit modules.

README Building The AMIBIOS8 1B Utilities Prerequisites • Linux/Unix machine (or possibly Mingw in Windows) to compile the code. The current version compilation/cross-compilation is only tested in Arch linux (gcc v7.1.1). • CMake, you need CMake to generate the Makefile(s). • C Compiler toolchain.

CMake will create Makefile(s) which will compile the code with your C compiler. • (Optional) If you want to cross compile from Linux to Windows (64-bit), you need to have the mingw-w64 cross compiler toolchain. Producing Executables The source code produces TWO different AMIBIOS 1B module utilities: ami_1b_splitter and ami_1b_combiner. • Invoke build.sh script in Linux/Unix to build the executable for Unix/Linux. • Invoke cross_build.sh script in Linux to cross compile with mingw-w64 to produce 64-bit executable for Windows (64-bit).

AMIBIOS Binary Support The utilities produced by the source code ONLY work with AMIBIOS8 (legacy BIOS) 1B module. The 1B module is the main module of AMIBIOS8, akin to original.tmp in (legacy) Award BIOS.

The current AMI BIOS splitter/combiner utilities only support 1B modules from 'AMIBIOS8' variants, i.e. AMIBIOS binaries which are built based on AMIBIOS8 code base. If your (legacy) AMI BIOS are from 2004 upwards, chances are it's based on the AMIBIOS8 code base. You can obtain the 1B module from AMIBIOS8 BIOS binary by using AMI Module Management Tool (MMTool) utility (). Now, into the condensed user manual.

Using ami_1b_splitter This is the shell/command showing ami_1b_splitter in action: C: Projects custom_tool ami_1b_splitter.exe Usage: C: Projects custom_tool ami_1b_splitter.exe --extract-all 1B_filename C: Projects custom_tool ami_1b_splitter.exe --extract 1B_filename component_offset C: Projects custom_tool ami_1b_splitter.exe --list 1B_filename In the first variant, this program will extract all components into individual files. In the second variant, this program will extract only ONE component which starts at component_offset in the 1B_file In the third variant, this program only lists the components inside the 1B file along with their information. For example, the steps to extract the ACPI table are as follows: List The 1B Module Components The first step is to list the components of the 1B module, so you can find the offset of the ACPI table.