Unable to update bios on ubuntu for vostro 1710

[Tim Uckun]

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> The Windows executable BIOS format for this system is not one that
> firmware-tools knows how to extract and turn into a deb or rpm.  So
> there is no BIOS update posted for this in the linux.dell.com
> repositories.
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> Unfortunately, this system's BIOS is only posted as a Windows
> executable.
>

What is dell's policy on providing firmware updates for linux users? Are
they waiting for the community to provide them and if so does dell have some
raw source code that could be compiled into a package?

It's a long gap between a2 and a12. Are the linux users always going to be
stuck with the a2 bios?
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