Facilitation of BIOS flash upgrades. [update-grub]

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:11:25PM +1100, Shimon wrote:
> i still do not understand why it is windows/dos based why don't
> motherboard makers just offer roms for the bios and provide the user
> with a few tools to flash it with (not that they have to make those
> tools them self)

Even though it's irritating ... considering the system-disabling impact
of a failed flash, I can entirely understand that motherboard
manufacturers only want to support a single tool. It would be good if
enough documentation were available so that somebody else could write a
working flash tool, though.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]