From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758176AbZBZUyT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:54:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754596AbZBZUyE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:54:04 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:49020 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752428AbZBZUyC (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:54:02 -0500 X-Authenticated: #31060655 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/t/coW/QztDSaGrNpK37UtfHbiNmEjvSSx6mMCxW mqdG1ncamBrWnL Message-ID: <49A70164.4000502@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:53:56 +0100 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080922 SUSE/1.1.12-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Jesper Krogh , Ryan Jackson , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , Dave Olsen , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc6 References: <49A679E8.1010301@krogh.cc> <49A6EE17.4070102@krogh.cc> <1235677008.8730.176.camel@macbook.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1235677008.8730.176.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.72 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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/