On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:23:26 +0100, Jon Masters <jonmasters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The system BIOS detects all the peripherals/components and initialises them. > Nope. It'll assign PCI IDs and stuff like that, but that's about the sum of it. The above doesn't require a pedant to point out that I don't mean "PCI ID". I mean interrupt assignment and so on, but I'd better say this before someone else feels a need to :-) Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
