[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS Debian package.

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Wed Nov 22 08:02:41 CET 2006


On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 05:04:17PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Doesnt make sense to package linuxbios itself or buildrom at all,
> as it would only include the sources. Instead, we should provide
> linuxbios images with linux payload for download. 
> 
> Packaging binary bios images in debian is kind of useless since you
> would flash them and deinstall the package again, which is not easier
> than downloading the stuff from our web page and flash that.

Yeah, I've been thinking about how/whether to package LinuxBIOS, but I
haven't come up with a good solution, yet.

But I'll surely package flashrom soon, that's a general purpose utility
which might be useful for other projects.


Uwe.
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