From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXiJ7-0006bP-Ip for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:41:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AA87E09EB; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.145]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0506E09EB for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so986572eyg.40 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:41:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=a5cGkqqDdTnyCp1qTOsHSKI2g+ER+AUl4CDvI/IXjOM=; b=JBQBqw0qw8CrHHF6BQlVVpEJ3Vk5OOeM1Dw5bgI0cZu+nYPedgwNJkj/2ZcVZNFm1T 98Enqwib0MMG/ZLvlblx/zenx4lkc/xWHptJt0SMff++w9JfGHv2q3Xz6SetfRr0+jN4 syebXGz+S5acUVxHwDzpodJKQAeUPbSo7JvXA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=FvXe4bf9HAxeZmP9TOn5zHhMrXN+D9wF4qvJvVURdULAmjhPswIdsfTTc0mAX0uFLZ TFcyFMJODj7zVETTzwMCNk7zw/8WVLzUFdv08DAHGY30oDbBID1fP0HtxHLLbo2Azrlh rp89OGxYdtAvP/jkAwg8GqAZIS7lZiewdjKbA= Received: by 10.213.50.76 with SMTP id y12mr475900ebf.39.1264023699355; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:41:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-202-237.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.202.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm283455ewy.15.2010.01.20.13.41.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:41:38 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-zen4; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <49bf44f11001190826v1532c970s9df5da5c52d3f6b9@mail.gmail.com> <201001202123.27196.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100120201913.49e1d3c1@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100120201913.49e1d3c1@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001202339.46614.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2a0e8ea4-5b15-4d44-82c1-c597c44d3bc5 X-Archives-Hash: aedaec2aadf15f01881ee69bcded25ce On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:19:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. > > > > > > because without them we couldn't flash stuff? > > > > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time > unless I run some program or other. So without a program to do flash updates (or at least some code somewhere that might not be in .exe or ELF format) how does your motherboard do flash updates? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com