On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Rousselle wrote:
> >you will also need to know a fair amount about your
> >motherboard chipset to replace the boot-time configuration of the BIOS as
> >well.
>
> You will also have to support all bios calls that are made by all
> the code that is running on your machine (unless linux does not use them????
> i do not know ... please tell me)
Linux generally doesn't need to make BIOS calls after boot.
> you will also have to configure all PCI devices (even bios makers have
> a hard time with this .... i've seen it so many times)
Many embedded machines are custom-made SBCs that forego having slots at
all. If all of your hardware and software is known at development time,
this is much less of a problem.
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