Re: No BIOS, load Linux fr EEPROM

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Sep 1998 22:04:26 GMT

Followup to: <19980914133204.E939@msu.edu>
By author: Aaron Tiensivu <tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > > Anyway I don't think the kernel actually uses it unless you're
> > > booting off a floppy. The _loader_ will use it, but not the kernel AFAIK.
> > There is some cases when reboot is made thru BIOS
> > (look at .../i386/kernel/process.c). May be other,
> > more significant pieces of code depends from BIOS.
>
> APM is thru the BIOS.
> ACPI is thru the BIOS (if ever supported).
> Some amount PnP (garbage) is done by the BIOS.
> Some PCI stuff is done with the BIOS (but 2.1 has direct PCI support now)
>

Yes, and none of them are required functions.

-hpa

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