list of systems not working with dellBiosUpdate

[Fabrice LORRAIN]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger a écrit :
> On 17.08.2007 21:55, Fabrice LORRAIN wrote:
>> Michael E Brown a écrit :
>>> Note that there can be three reasons to cause a system to not work:
>> reasons which are interresting to document in a better place than 
>> list-archive, I think.
>>
>>>   -- A system doesnt support RBU
>> Which means that those systems might work in the future, if a poor soul 
>> at Dell get some specs and motivation.
>>
>>>   -- System supports RBU, but doesnt have BIOS in a format I can
>>>   extract (Opti 740 probably falls here right now).
>> means that those systems could be supported soon, it needs the BIOS team 
>> to provide the spec to exctract the hbr file or to provide the file 
>> directly.
>>
>>>   -- System supports RBU, but RBU is buggy and doesnt work. Many old
>>>   systems fall under this. :(
>> Dead end, unsupported systems. Nice to know.
> 
> You can try flashrom from LinuxBIOS on all of these machines. If the
> flash chip is detected correctly, there is a good chance you also can
> flash a new Dell BIOS version.
> Simply install flashrom (instructions at http://linuxbios.org/Flashrom )
> and run "flashrom -V". The output will usually give enough information
> to add support for flashing your BIOS if it's not supported yet.
> 
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel

Thanks for the hint.
Any backport of flashrom for debian/etch floating around ?

@+,
	Fab