Neil A. Carson writes:
> Russell King - ARM Linux Admin wrote:
> > (Interestingly, I believe that RiscBSD have to write a new loader for
> > each and every card that they support).
>
> Actually, NetBSD ignores loaders completely, mainly because we hardly
> ever need to access the ROMs on the cards. Even in the case of reading
> an ethernet hardware address, we've not had a problem getting it without
> using the loader as all the cards so far supported have had the info in
> the first couple of KB. Given the loader does so little, it hardly seems
> worth bothering to run it. You need to nkow the h/w to drive it, and a
> paging or reset register isn't exactly difficult.
Let me clarify a point about the expansion card support: Linux will not use
the loader if it doesn't have to. ie, if it can find all the information it
requires without loading the loader, then the loader will not be used.
However, if it can't find the information it needs in the first chunk
directory, it will use the loader to access the next chunk directory.
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