Makes sense. That was one thing that gave me a bit of a gut feeling to do it in a small linux install than to try to integrate more tightly with the firmware. The linux utility is what everyone uses and should be more reliable.
I've been recently burned by that issue too, on proprietary firmware from around 2008.
-Matt
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 7:56 PM ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 9:29 AM Matt B matthewwbradley6@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was helping a friend with a bios issue (we may have an involuntary
coreboot convert on our hands ;) ) and realized that a lot of BIOSs provide a way for the BIOS to flash itself but Coreboot doesn't.
And, for the record, this was intentional, a decision I made in 1999 when I started the project. I had been burned big time by firmware systems that claimed to be able to reliably reflash themselves, and the history of UEFI self-reflash, at least in my view, confirms that this was the right call.
I just wanted to make clear that this was not an oversight, it was a decision we made from the start. We always felt more willing to trust a user mode program running under Linux to get it right, as opposed to some magic thing in the firmware ... :-)
thanks
ron