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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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