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   Message 3,018 of 4,255   
   James Harris to Scott Lurndal   
   Re: hardware abstraction   
   02 Jan 22 17:40:41   
   
   From: james.harris.1@gmail.com   
      
   On 13/12/2021 18:04, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   > James Harris  writes:   
   >> On 13/12/2021 15:32, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   ...   
      
   >>> To a certain extent, standards such as AHCI and XHCI have created   
   >>> a common base for a subset of hardware devices, but there is no   
   >>> equivalent for networking or printers.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> AFAIK there are no BIOS calls for the network.   
   >   
   > PXE.   
   >   
      
   AFAIK that's only for booting via the network and if one boots from hard   
   disk then the PXE UNDI drivers will not be available (unfortunately).   
      
      
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