Mark Knecht wrote: -snip-
> 1) After my machines are running Gentoo is system BIOS still being > used in ANY way? Please assume P4/Athlon XP level machines. > > 2) If my machines are depending on system BIOS is there a way for me > to tell what calls are being made to system BIOS, or at least > understanding what parts of system BIOS Linux is using? > > This question is not intended to be related to video BIOS or > anything that might be located on a VGA card of some type. > The purpose of BIOS is not to provide complete and excellent HW maintenance in multitasking environment, but system boot up only. Maybe there are some exceptions, but generaly if kernel is alive, u can safely remove all BIOS chips from it's sockets. noro -- [email protected] mailing list
