On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:22:49PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > When the PC clones first appeared, the universal OS was DOS. That's > what they used as a platform for firmware updates. Only later did > Windows come along and eventually motherboard manufacturers had to run > the update tools under Windows. Many support both but some require > Windows. Many document this poorly.
I like the ones that have firmware update support built in to the firmware itself. > There is some effort to support firmware update under Linux. I'm not > likely to try it because I judge the ratio of risk to reward > to be unfavourable. > > (The first time I bought a motherboard that came with a Windows > firmware update, I tried it and it bricked the board. The > manufacturer said it was my fault. Luckily I had captured a screen > shot of their web page where they had briefly admitted culpability, so > they did end up covering it under warranty.) Ouch. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
