Updating system BIOS when running Ubuntu

[Robert Lindgren]

Thanks for you hard work, I just tested it with my Vostro 1700, and
get a little confusing message:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  system-bios-vostro-1700
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 713kB of archives. After unpacking 1208kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://linux.dell.com cross-distro/dell-firmware
system-bios-vostro-1700 0.a00-1 [713kB]
Fetched 713kB in 1s (386kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package system-bios-vostro-1700.
(Reading database ... 122135 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking system-bios-vostro-1700 (from
.../system-bios-vostro-1700_0.a00-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up system-bios-vostro-1700 (0.a00-1) ...

It looks like it wants to install bios A00 on my system and I have A01
installed from factory (but it's not possible to download A01 from
dell.com website, so I'm not sure why my system has A01)
root at vostro2:/etc/apt# getSystemId
Libsmbios:    0.13.6
System ID:    0x0229
Service Tag:  XXXXXXX
Express Service Code: XXXXXXXXXX
Product Name: Vostro 1700
BIOS Version: A01
Vendor:       Dell Inc.
Is Dell:      1

My other vostro 1700 have bios A00, so maybe this is OK but looks like
it will downgrade my bios?

BR
Robert Lindgren