Changelog?

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:14:48AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> First off, a big kudos for all this work.  I just discovered these 
> projects yesterday and I've already got automatic firmware updates going 
> for our Dell systems.  Great stuff!

Thanks!
 
> One thing I think would be fantastic to have somehow would be for the 
> changelog of the rpms be populated from the release notes/comments/what 
> not for the BIOS updates.  This would allow easy checking of what's changed.

That's a good idea.  I don't know that the release notes are posted
in a common way such that we could automatically grab them
programatically though.  Needs some investigation.
 
> Also, looks like some very old systems don't have updates (Dimension 
> 4100, XPS T700r, .  Could this be remedied (by myself or others)?

Probably not.  The tools extract BIOS for all the systems that have
the capability of being updated "remotely" (e.g. not using a DOS
floppy).  If it doesn't exist for a particular old system, chances are
that system doesn't already have the capability of being updated, and
it won't grow that feature after end-of-support-life either.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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