Re: Linux/ix86 booting process and BIOS

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 18:29:36 EST


On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > Everything the BIOS gets "wrong"......
> > Wrong or not wrong depends largely on the point of view :-)
>
> No. There are specifications for BIOS interfaces. There are
> specifications for PCI, and there are BIOS implemenations. The
> three rarely co-incide.

Oh, if I could say it that nicely.........bravo!

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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