On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 05:44:29PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:20:28PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > I just wrote a small utility to set the appropiate bytes in > > linuxbios.rom. > > > > Any comments? > > I prefer the xxd trick. Note that I am exclusively working on systems > where (I can make sure) xxd is available.
Looking at the manpage, it seems that xxd is aimed at a different kind of use. I'm a bit skeptic about it being able to do that job (specialy about handling bit shifting, endianess and negative offsets). Perhaps you could show an example? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
