Re: Linux/ix86 booting process and BIOS

From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 13:39:17 EST

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Alan Cox wrote:
> > - Which tasks really have to be performed by the BIOS? What does Linux rely
> > on?
[...]

Everything that goes into the EBDA (Extended BIOS Data Area, the stuff
allocated below 0xA000:0000), e.g. certain SMP tables (not sure what
they do - I just know that it kills SMP if LILO trips over them ;-)

- Werner

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