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From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>, Ryan Jackson <rjackson@lnxi.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Dave Olsen <dolsen@lnxi.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc6
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:53:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A70164.4000502@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1235677008.8730.176.camel@macbook.infradead.org>

On 26.02.2009 20:36, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It's for overwriting your BIOS.
>   

There's a pure userspace replacement for it. That replacement is even
packaged in most distros. See http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom .


Regards,
Carl-Daniel

-- 
http://www.hailfinger.org/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-26 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902222023520.3111@localhost.localdomain>
     [not found] ` <49A679E8.1010301@krogh.cc>
2009-02-26 17:17   ` MTD_CK804XROM warning (Was: Linux 2.6.29-rc6) Marcin Slusarz
2009-02-26 17:53   ` Linux 2.6.29-rc6 Linus Torvalds
2009-02-26 19:22     ` David Woodhouse
2009-02-26 19:31     ` Jesper Krogh
2009-02-26 19:36       ` David Woodhouse
2009-02-26 19:46         ` Jesper Krogh
2009-02-26 19:49           ` David Woodhouse
2009-02-26 20:53         ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [this message]
2009-02-26 20:32       ` Linus Torvalds

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