Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Yup.
>
> In that fact's what a lot of modern RAID firmwares are, an RTOS 
> running on a generic CPU.  Some NIC firmwares too.

Not just modern, old controllers too, eg DAC960 (i960), ExtremeRAID 
(StrongARM), Compaq Smart-2 (AMD 29k), etc. Hard disks too. Do a 
strings on Seagate SCSI disk firmware, the 'BOS' RTOS iirc. Intel 
IXP2x00 network accelerators are Xscale+added bits (there's a port of 
Fedora for them!).

Linux could be one of several OSes running on any given PC.

> 	Jeff

regards,
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