Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management BaseDriver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

[Michael E Brown]

>On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:38:49 CDT, Doug Warzecha said:
>
>> > If this is supposed to be used with the RBU code to trigger a BIOS  
>> > update, ...
>> 
>> This driver is not needed by the RBU code.
>
> Documentation/dell_rbu.txt says:
>
>> The rbu driver needs to have an application which will inform the BIOS to
>> enable the update in the next system reboot.
>
> Can the dcdbas code be used to implement that application?

No, dcdbas has nothing to do with this. I'll have to submit a patch
against the docs. The program you need to use already exists and is
open source. You can use libsmbios to do this.
http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main.

The binary you want to use is "activateCmosToken", under bins/output/
(after compilation). The command line syntax is like this:
	activateCmosToken 0x005C

If you want to cancel a BIOS update that has already been activated
(per above), use: 	
	activateCmosToken 0x005D

Basically, follow the docs in the RBU docs as far as cat-ing the bios
update image to the rbu sysfs files, then use the activateCmosToken
program to tell BIOS to do the update on reboot. 

-- 
Michael




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