Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)
From: Paul Jakma
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 19:48:20 EST
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Yup.
In that fact's what a lot of modern RAID firmwares are, an RTOS
running on a generic CPU. Some NIC firmwares too.
Not just modern, old controllers too, eg DAC960 (i960), ExtremeRAID
(StrongARM), Compaq Smart-2 (AMD 29k), etc. Hard disks too. Do a
strings on Seagate SCSI disk firmware, the 'BOS' RTOS iirc. Intel
IXP2x00 network accelerators are Xscale+added bits (there's a port of
Fedora for them!).
Linux could be one of several OSes running on any given PC.
Jeff
regards,
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