list of systems not working with dellBiosUpdate

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 07:57:16PM +0200, Fabrice LORRAIN wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In [1] and [2], Matt Domsch and Michael E Brown respectively indicated 
> that some Dell system might not be upgradable with current tools 
> (libsmbios/dellBiosUpdate).
> 
> I would suggest to put the list of those incompatible systems on 
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/ so us (the users) could get a clearer 
> picture of what works or not.

I would dearly like to post such a list. As it happens, though, I dont
have that list. :(   I work on the server team, and dont really do a lot
of work with the myriad different desktops/laptops.

I can send a couple queries, though.

Note that there can be three reasons to cause a system to not work:
  -- A system doesnt support RBU
  -- System supports RBU, but doesnt have BIOS in a format I can
  extract (Opti 740 probably falls here right now).
  -- System supports RBU, but RBU is buggy and doesnt work. Many old
  systems fall under this. :(
--
Michael