OS neutral BIOS updates.

[Bas van der Vlies]

James, Rick wrote:
> 
> 
> Question: Why are Dell BIOS updates distributed as .exe files which must 
> be run from a Microsoft environment and which the user must already have?
> 
> This creates a great deal of inconvenience for users of Linux (and other 
> OS's) unnecessarily.
> 
> I am requesting that you provide bootable 1.44MB floppy image files 
> (.img) and/or bootable CD (.iso) images which includes just enough of an 
> OS (DRDOS, Linux, whatever) to flash the BIOS ROM.
> 

In the new 2.6 kernelss there is a dell kernel module: dell_rbu
in combination with libsmbios you can update your bios on a running
linux operating system.  A reboot will activate the new bios ;-)

Regards
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