The only bios dependency that I know of is that the bios determines how to
boot your OS (Linux, DOS, or whatever). It generally reads the MBR from
the hard disk or floppy disk to find out where the executable lives on the
physical media. It then loads that code to RAM and runs it. Once the
linux kernel is running I don't think there is much dependecy on the bios.
This is what I believe, but I can not guarantee it.
Brendan Simon.
Naushit Sakarvadia wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anybody tell me how much Linux Kernel is dependent on BIOS ?
> Till I have figure out that for PCI card/.bus it is dependent on Bios
> what else should
> I consider if I want to remove BIOS from my Single board computer?
>
> And please can anybody tell me how many SBC( single board computers )
> uses PCI interfaces?
>
> Please bear with my ignorance.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Naushit
