On Tuesday 24 January 2006 12:15, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > -- > > Giuliano. > > Look, "the device" a piece of metal, with electric motor(s) and a piece > of plastic (the device PCB) on which the controller, which is also kind > of CPU for the device, is installed. > > "The CPU" is also a CPU, which is installed onto a piece of plastic > (the motherboard PCB); typically CPU works with an electric motor - its > cooling fan. Or, by the way, the heatsink, and the computer case as a > whole, are also pieces of metal.
and the firmware runs on the cpu of the device, while the kernel (and kernel drivers) run on the CPU of the computer. IUt is sad, that you don't see the fundamental difference. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
