[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“With the exception of LM_Sensors providing some
sensors support, this is a grey area for Linux. Fortunately,
however, the folks working on the CoreBoot project have developed a
program that will near universally allow you to flash your
motherboard’s BIOS from within the Linux desktop.“The Flashrom utility is developed by the CoreBoot project
(formerly known as LinuxBIOS) as a way to read, write, erase, and
verify flash ROM chips. Flashrom has been in development for quite
a while (nearly a decade), but now they have finally come out with
a version 0.9.0 release and soon expect to reach a 1.0 status. This
utility supports nearly every x86 motherboard after having worked
on support for over 150 flash chip families (and many various for
each family), 75 different chipsets, workarounds for non-standard
motherboards, and there is no need for CD-ROM or floppy disk.”
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