easier (DKMS). Upgrading a BIOS version from a Linux shell is not something you want to give up after you tried it.
if a vendor wanted to do a good job, I think that opening/documenting the bios would be a huge win. for instance, giving us a way to poke (or at least peek) the actual bios settings in flash would be incredibly valuable. I expect that supporting flash from linux would be pretty simple - a small kernel driver to abstract from the flash size/type and its particular controller. IMO, this is clearly in the vendor's court because they're the ones who know/control the hardware details. HP distributes linux-based firmware updates, but only for add-in devices (scsi controllers, BMC, etc), not the bios itself... _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
