From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262106AbVGFIFU (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 04:05:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262144AbVGFIFU (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 04:05:20 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.194]:35444 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262106AbVGFGc0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 02:32:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=fYDu0VOmcg5CLR8PkLDae9e65DVjxalHKOxjXAdln45gDjVbqDyiyaz7Ax5Gw1Vs9U+zhhFO/oKa2LJBXQbWXLs3HgGP7rW3KVFpj8nneQ0YbYTdjQkS8bZWqy8TPWWOqLG1OmGyOC3/6feZWJNlVctSRFqLsOVoJnLMOT06bUA= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:02:26 +0530 From: Bhagyashri Bijwe Reply-To: Bhagyashri Bijwe To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: bios interaction with linux kernel after uncompression. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, During bootstrapping, bios provides services like video ,hard drive services, memory sizing, PCI table to linux kernel. After uncompression of kernel , Does linux kernel have any interaction with bios? I know that most of work is done by linux device driver. What is dependency of running linux on bios ? Thanks in advance, -- *********************************************** Ms Bhagyashri Bijwe Project Eng. Networking and Internet Software Group, Centre for Research and Development, Pune,India Ph.25694000 Ext-484/462 B.E.( Computer Sci. and Engg. )