Norbert Kamenicky <noro <at> xmedia.sk> writes:
> 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. For most of the legacy hardware: drives, floppy, CD, mouse, serial ports this may be true. But, let's think about ACPI, I2C, sensors, SMBus, Dallas one-wire, and the myriad of undocumented hardware/comm channels going on the motherboard. Not to mention that the evil one from redmond has convinced quite a few hardware vendors to pursue nefarious activities during the boot process..... Have you actually removed a bios/flash chip or erased it after boot to test your theory? I think what you have said is true of older boards and some current vendors, but, certainly not is all cases.... Let's think about this a little bit more.... James -- [email protected] mailing list
