Re: pci cards and alpha

David Murn (scuffer@hups.apana.org.au)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:30:35 -0300 (ADT)


On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:

> This is not a problem, if Linux has _full_ drivers for the device,
> that entirely make the BIOS obsolete. This is usually the case for
> SCSI cards.
>
> Network cards that are used for remote booting (i.e. have a BIOS and use
> it before Linux is up) and Video cards (which cannot be properly initialized
> by Linux, except when using GGI) are exceptions.

Ummmm, if video cards are an exception, because they're accessed before
booting, then how the heck does a scsi card hope to boot?

Davey