[ltp] General question on BIOS update

[Dan Maranville]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:18, Christoph Bier <christoph.bier@web.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> browsing ThinkWiki I found the suggestion to always have an up-to-date BIOS.
> My wife's R60 is about two years old and hasn't seen any BIOS update since
> then. Is updating safe according to functionality under Linux? I'm not sure
> because on my new X200s thinkpad_ec doesn't load so I can not benefit from
> tp_smapi. But on my wife's TP it works like a charm. I'm afraid of breaking
> this functionality by updating the BIOS.
>
> Best
> Christoph

As the old adage goes "If it ain't broke don't fix it"
I personally would review the documentation and weigh the benefits of
the upgrade.
For myself I am trying to keep the bios completely up to date in order
to see if/when the cpu whine on battery is fixed.

-- 
Dan Maranville