Flashing a BIOS the Linux Way (tm) using flashrom
There are a gazillionHOWTOsoutthere for flashing a BIOS image without having to resort to ugly "boot DOS from floppy" or "run Windows *.exe file from BIOS vendor" and other ugly stuff. Unfortunately,...
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Coreboot hacking: How to solder a PLCC socket on your board
When trying to port coreboot (previously LinuxBIOS) to a new mainboard you're often confronted with a big problem: the BIOS/ROM chip on the respective motherboard is soldered onto the board (i.e., not...
View ArticleFlashrom 0.9 release - Flashing your BIOS from the Unix/Linux command line
I have mentioned the flashrom utility in my blog in the past. This is a small command line tool which allows you to update your BIOS/coreboot/firmware chips without opening the computer and without any...
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coreboot / flashrom in GSOC 2010 -- student application deadline today!
As you may know there's a Google Summer of Code program again this year.The deadline for student applications is April 9th at 19:00 UTC, so if you're a student and you want to work on a coreboot...
View Articleflashrom 0.9.2 released -- Open-Source, crossplatform BIOS / EEPROM / flash...
The long-pending 0.9.2 version of the open-source, cross-platform, commandline flashrom utility has been released.From the announce:New major user-visible features: * Dozens of newly supported...
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Flashrom 0.9.4 released - Flashing BIOS/ROM chips from the Unix/Linux command...
Forgot to mention this here: We released flashrom 0.9.4 a few days ago, the latest release of the open-source, GPL'd ROM chip flashing software for Linux, *BSD, DOS, and partially also Windows (work in...
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