OS neutral BIOS updates.

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Please see my recent announcement of firmware-tools. This project takes
libsmbios+dell_rbu to the next level.
--
Michael 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Bas 
> van der Vlies
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:45 AM
> To: James, Rick
> Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: OS neutral BIOS updates.
> 
> 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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