Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> > This is kind of bad news. It seems to be moving from bios INDEPENCE to
> > bios DEPENDENCE.
>
> ??
>
> It's not moving anywhere, just documenting current behavior and creating
> a recommended practices-type document for BIOS vendors.
Agreed. This I believe was pointed towards ``Legacy Free'' systems builders
so that they don't get to overzealous, and will still support linux.
> Nothing is changing here...
There is a is still a sizeable chunk left out.
PCI-IDE,
Rebooting
(You even need to initialize the southbridge to get a triple-fault to
reboot the cpu.)
RTC clock initialization.
etc.
Anyone want to help me compile a list of what else linux depends
on that Alan left out?
Eric
