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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:48:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: Kernel executation from ROM
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Jaswinder Singh wrote:

> Dear Sirs,
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM
> speed is slow :(

Also, the PCI specification forbids executing code from ROMs over the PCI bus.
The system BIOS in a PC is not on the PCI bus, bus, but everything else is.

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