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 1NXreR-0006XA-Q9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:40:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34B3DE05CF; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f217.google.com (mail-ew0-f217.google.com [209.85.219.217]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8647E05CF for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so9508709ewy.11 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:38:47 -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=P9pOfdeac9oIDXGdWZqVL3xMwfxhroHZbpDXB3P2P6g=; b=d1OqPzJdVJ1P2RsYMCOPggN6qEkRgUS5FhxvMhhX4iy1/VgHFVs296cOEBKqbw72W7 LzvB519ew9SzYEIejWBw752F4g3SwNVZ53Hu9o1x0crYmWqHkUlLMepyrE0w0tco16p/ MbjUfJ3ISj45kRHeXPQ18OI3UVP8I4oaMMzMs= 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=Yve/783uKLV5yEg/uWm9NHo0nGJhcaLBzYT2VfoAScn4k0wFlXcgVfmDF9hNYoPfeH uEIEtLKmmphiy1KVrCEQL3r/tkANnYApoG6jjSZiglth1Pm8hoPQ2D/NDeDfy6iSR2k3 F15GJXthN/KcYT31mnHpINZVyWKHW0THvHtA0= Received: by 10.213.109.86 with SMTP id i22mr2026407ebp.58.1264059527305; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:38:47 -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 14sm610866ewy.11.2010.01.20.23.38.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:38:46 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:36:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-zen4; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <49bf44f11001190826v1532c970s9df5da5c52d3f6b9@mail.gmail.com> <201001202339.46614.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100120224026.0be1beb3@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100120224026.0be1beb3@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: <201001210936.58713.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 46979569-fce6-420e-9cd2-832738e896e1 X-Archives-Hash: 6c2b3d4b342e176d055342b246324035 On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:40:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > 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? > > There's code somewhere of course, but no program to run. I just put the > update file on a USB stick and hold down a key while booting. The code > runs direct from the motherboard, there's no operating system > requirement, it's a very civilized system. Yes, very civilised. I have a hacked-up-too-gazooks android phone that works the same way -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com