On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:09:28 CDT, you said: > No, dcdbas has nothing to do with this. I'll have to submit a patch > against the docs. The program you need to use already exists and is > open source. You can use libsmbios to do this. > http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main. Now I'm confoozled. Maybe - I suspect we're actually in violent agreement... On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:58:56 CDT, [email protected] said: > Additionally, we are releasing an open source library (GPL/OSL dual > license) that can use these hooks to perform many systems management > functions in userspace. See http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/. We > should have code in libsmbios to do SMI using this driver within about two > weeks. We currently writing the SMI hooks in libsmbios using this posted > version of the driver. I am the maintainer of this project, and it is my goal > to have code in libsmbios for every Dell SMI call. So dcdbas *is* intended as the kernel end of the userspace libsmbios, which is the suggested way of getting that BIOS updated. OK, I got it now.. ;) (continuing on) > The binary you want to use is "activateCmosToken", under bins/output/ > (after compilation). The command line syntax is like this: > activateCmosToken 0x005C > > If you want to cancel a BIOS update that has already been activated > (per above), use: > activateCmosToken 0x005D > > Basically, follow the docs in the RBU docs as far as cat-ing the bios > update image to the rbu sysfs files, then use the activateCmosToken > program to tell BIOS to do the update on reboot. Ahh... the missing piece I didn't have before. :)
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