Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:21:22 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: Flash BIOS under linux |
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On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Dave Jones. wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know if there is a kernel or user space facility > > > > that allows one to flash the BIOS under linux? If such a thing > > > > exists where would I get it? > > > To the best of my knowledge this doesn't exist. > > Yes it does. It's not standard, but someone produced a patch maybe 9 > > months ago which provided a /dev/flash which could be dd'ed to and from > > to flash new BIOS images. > > Any idea who/where that was ?
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~stepan/bios/
(Very impressed - Google's first result on the Linux search page for "flash bios" took me to the initial annoucement.)
> I remember some speculation of a /proc/bios, is this what you're thinking > of ? Did anything come of this ?
/dev/bios, it would seem. Doesn't seem to have been updates for a while, though..
Matthew.
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