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    <title><![CDATA[Standard BIOS Flash Utility]]></title>
    <link>http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12168/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Create a standard way of updating a BIOS from Linux. Even integrate it into the update manager.<br />
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<b>[206 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #12168</b>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Eldmannen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[All vendors seems to have their own flash utility. Example, awdflash, amiflash (afud), etc.<br /><br />In the repository there is a flash utility called 'flashrom' though.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Eldmannen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Note that motherboards have different type of BIOS chips.<br />There are many different manufacturers and models of BIOS chips, and they come in various forms (PLCC, DIP, SPI, TSOP, etc) and sizes (1, 2, 4 mb).]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from aikiwolfie</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Yeah the trouble is, Dell release their BIOS updates wrapped in a Windows .exe file. I'm just not sure if WINE can handle flashing the BIOS.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from solardeity</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Well mostly, you can extract the files with wine just by a click on the .exe file and CD thru the .wine directory.. <br /><br />It would make sense to integrate free-dos (since it is free), or to put a bootable free-dos on a live CD or in GRUB where you can start free-dos and CD to the BIOS file and execute it.. ??]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from aikiwolfie</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Why do we need another OS to do this? Dell are working on a utility for flashing a BIOS from Linux. Dell bundles Ubuntu with select systems. So it makes sense for Ubuntu/Canonical to get involved.<br /><br />In fact it makes sense for all Linux developers to get involved.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from migueleonm</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The application for flashing is a thing, and the BIOS from the manufacturar is another history.<br /><br />You can obtain a tool like that, but waht about the proper bios for you machine with the proper format for the tool?? the manufacturer is the responsible for the bios. Many of them only offer bios embeded in exe files. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from mikedep333</title>
  <description><![CDATA[It seems to me that this is a very unreasonable and dangerous goal. I am sure it is hard to flash countless types of motherboards with their different bioses. Also, do we really want to have fingers pointed at us when these bios updates fail? Also, this is more of an upstream project than a distribution project.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from marco.pallotta</title>
  <description><![CDATA[For me it could be a simple graphical utility included in the default install that should create a bootable dos floppy/cd/dvd with, inside, the manufacturer bios flash utility (obviously this last should be downloaded separatly by the user). <br />This could be ok for all flash utility that run in dos mode.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Diggs808</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Actually, You can already flash your Dell BIOS:<br /><br />http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=896232<br /><br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Auzy</title>
  <description><![CDATA[+1. If we have a standard way of doing it, manufacturers may jump on board and provide bios updates that linux can specifically use easily. <br /><br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Rabbid</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Get Dell on board an create an extendable application/specification for one (so other distributions can create their own app) that all motherboard vendors can create their own backend for.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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