Dear Mario,
Thank you for your reply. On 09/13/16 16:13, mario_limoncie...@dell.com wrote: > First off let me say that Flashrom is an unsecured flashing mechanism. > On Dell systems the SPI rom is only unlocked after the signature of the > flashing payload is validated. It wouldn’t be hard to extend a program like flashrom, or write a wrapper around it, to check the signature. > The strategies offered for client systems and servers vary. > > On supported client and IoT systems Dell has started to offer UEFI capsule > updates (www.fwupd.org). > > On other client systems that don't yet support UEFI capsule update, you can > flash by placing > the binary on a FAT32 USB stick and pressing F12 at POST. You will see an > option to "Flash BIOS". > It will let you select the binary and flash it. > You actually don't need a FAT32 USB stick if the machine is already booting > in UEFI mode. You > can also place it on the EFI system partition and browse that from the F12 > menu. I am well aware of these methods, and can only say, that they aren’t as user friendly as running a program from the running operating system. > For server systems there are a lot of other components that need to be > updated (such as LCC > and iDRAC). DUP packages that can be run in Linux are released for these > systems. Last time I tried it, this was very cumbersome. > It's also possible to do updates from bootable media > (http://www.dell.com/Support/Article/us/en/04/SLN296511) Creating a new boot media, although I am already running an operating system, which provides the same environment, is a waste of time and resources. So back to the original question, will Dell provide the customers an *easy* way, that means it takes less than two minutes, to update the firmware from their operating system of choice? Who is the right person to contact? Kind regards, Paul Menzel _______________________________________________ Linux-Desktops mailing list Linux-Desktops@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
