[OpenBIOS] Re: Some Questions and ideas for gnu-bios

[nuke at bayside.net]

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Chris Arguin wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Under linux, bios is not used (well, with exceptions of APM).
> 
> What about the IDE LBA mappings? I don't think that is done inside the
> Linux kernel, so I imagine it is handled by the BIOS. Sure, it isn't a
> call to Int 13, but we've got to handle that.
> 
> Also, some people (like myself, unforunitly) have a SCSI BIOS onboard.
> AFAIK, that SCSI BIOS is part of the regular BIOS (corrections, anyone?).
> If so, we will have to handle that as well to get Linux to boot.

actually, i think newer BIOSes (award, AMI) scan for certain recognizable
scsi cards and loads bios routines from the card
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