Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:58:32 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: Flash BIOS under linux |
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On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Dave Jones. wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is a kernel or user space facility > > that allows one to flash the BIOS under linux? If such a thing > > exists where would I get it? > > To the best of my knowledge this doesn't exist.
Yes it does. It's not standard, but someone produced a patch maybe 9 months ago which provided a /dev/flash which could be dd'ed to and from to flash new BIOS images.
> And as some BIOS manufacturers are very prohibitive about their > technology, it's unlikely that a generic tool will ever happen. > You /may/ convince some vendors to port to Linux, but I can't see > that happening.
Indeed. I believe that the aforementioned patch only supported relatively traditional Intel chipset boards...
Matthew.
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