Critical Dell BIOS Update

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:40:15PM -0300, Andrew Reid wrote:
> Michael E Brown wrote:
> 
> >Huh? You didnt get this from fwupdate.com, I'm guessing.
> >
> >I'm working on debian packages for firmware-tools and
> >firmware-addon-dell, and deb conversions of the fwupdate.com bios
> >images. These should be posted within a few weeks.
> >--
> >Michael
> >
> 
> 
> Thank-you, thank-you. In the meantime I have compiled the libsmbios 
> package (0.13.5) on an Ubuntu 6.10 x64 box. It seems to have produced 
> the requisite binaries.
> 
> Where does one find the extract-hdr program. Is it available as source 
> or do I have to break the binary out of an RPM (and which one).

Well, dell-repo-tools is what you want. Download tarballs here:

http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/download/

Dont remember if dell-repo-tools has a hard requirement on
firmware-tools or firmware-addon-dell. I think it does.
--
Michael