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Re:Dell Edge Gateway 5000 to support natively flashing UEFI ... by josteink on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @04:31AM (#11025573)
> But that's not really flashing under Linux is it?

Indeed not. But if we are going to nitpick, my first question would be what value does being able to flash new firmware from inside Linux achieve compared to what we have today: a OS-agnostic bootable update-medium?

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Re:Dell Edge Gateway 5000 to support natively flashing UEFI ... by noja on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @04:48AM (#11025622)
Less steps. No manual process.
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Re:Dell Edge Gateway 5000 to support natively flashing UEFI ... by josteink on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @05:34AM (#11025757)
But now we can have malware hijacking our firmware, seamlessly through standard kernel APIs.

Is this really an improvement? Is it worth it?

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Re:Dell Edge Gateway 5000 to support natively flashing UEFI ... by noja on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @10:19AM (#11026862)
You would require root on the machine, and if you have root anyway...

Anyway you can already flash the firmware, just without a standard interface: either with the uefi copy thing, or with a proprietary tool.

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