2010/11/6 Rajat Sharma <[email protected]>: > Greg, >> So the timing as to when the parameters is not what I was addressing. > > From your previous reply, it looked like you are not agreeing with my first > statement > "As I can remember, Linux uses BIOS only at the bootup time, after that on a > running kernel, there is no role of BIOS routines." > so this bootup time code involves all these sort of initialization, perhaps > I used 'bootup time' as very abstract word. I think we are on same page. > BTW with your reply, looks you are also in storage domain. > Rajat
Storage is my primary area of interest for the last 10+ years. Before that it was networking. My first big UNIX project almost 30 years ago was to design the hardware for a TOE for a SLIP (serial line IP) implementation. The TOE hardware was based on 68010 embedded cpu with 8 uarts (really 4 duarts iirc)) I also wrote much of the UNIX driver that talked to the controller. Someone else wrote the TOE firmware. Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
