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From: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com
To: Donald Cowart <dcowart@acld.lib.fl.us>
Cc: FASSINO Jean-Philippe <jeanphilippe.fassino@francetelecom.fr>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: RTAS on PowerMac Newworld
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:00:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <397D8157.E4E94657@vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.20.0007250756370.31668-100000@bookworm.acld.lib.fl.us


Donald Cowart wrote:
>
> Newbie question, what is RTAS?

RTAS == Run-Time Abstraction Services

In a nutshell an API the OS may utilize to perform various tasks which without
RTAS would be hardware dependant. For example: reading the level on a battery on
a portable, and so on.

> Donald Cowart  (dcowart@acld.lib.fl.us)


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-25 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-25 10:22 RTAS on PowerMac Newworld FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 11:38 ` tom_gall
2000-07-25 11:58   ` Donald Cowart
2000-07-25 12:00     ` tom_gall [this message]
2000-07-25 12:00     ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 12:08   ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 13:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found] ` <20000725131626.8292@mailhost.mipsys.com>
2000-07-25 13:41   ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 14:03     ` Hollis Blanchard
2000-07-25 14:41     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-07-25 14:49       ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe
2000-07-25 18:37         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-07-26 12:25           ` FASSINO Jean-Philippe

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