From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com Message-ID: <397D8157.E4E94657@vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:00:23 +0000 Reply-To: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Cowart CC: FASSINO Jean-Philippe , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: RTAS on PowerMac Newworld References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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) -- Tom Gall - PowerPC Linux Team "Where's the ka-boom? There was Linux Technology Center supposed to be an earth (w) tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com shattering ka-boom!" (w) 507-253-4558 -- Marvin Martian (h) tgall@uswest.net http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/