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SubjectRe: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)
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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