RE: [RFC][patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for new Dell BIOS update driver

[<Abhay_Salunke@Dell.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:15 PM
> To: Salunke, Abhay
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; greg@kroah.com
> Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for
new
> Dell BIOS update driver
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:26:40 CDT, Abhay Salunke said:
> 
> > diff -uprN linux-2.6.11.11.orig/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt linux-
> 2.6.11.11.ne
> w/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt
> > --- linux-2.6.11.11.orig/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt	1969-12-31
> 18:00:00.000
> 000000 -0600
> > +++ linux-2.6.11.11.new/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt	2005-06-29
> 15:18:52.000
> 000000 -0500
> > @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
> 
> > +The rbu driver needs to have an application which will inform the
BIOS
> to
> > +enable the update in the next system reboot.
> 
> And the API for the userspace application to do that is?  There's a
> comment in
> patch to drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c that says:
> 
> * contiguous and packetized. Both these methods still require having
some
> * application to set the CMOS bit indicating the BIOS to update itself
> * after a reboot.
> 
> but no hint *which* CMOS bit needs to be tweaked - is the
> drivers/char/nvram.c
> driver sufficient if you know the bit/byte number to set?
> 
I would recommend libsmbios application available at
http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios we are working on updating this page to
include instructions on using this App with dell_rbu. Please check on
this link for any updates. Also the dell_rbu.txt will be updated with
the link to this page once it is complete.

Abhay
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