[ltp] Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

tag 565789 wontfix
thanks

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Perhaps it could mention what it believes the current versions should
> be, so we can check the IBM website before decide we have send the unit

The only supported versions are the lastest ones, it is that simple.

The version the driver thinks you should use is the latest that was
available when I wasted a few hours tracking them all.  It only complains
about thinkpads that do not get any more 'enhancement' firmware updates,
anyway, so there is no excuse.  I review that list every once in a while.

> back to IBM to get whatever it is that is bothering it updated (as we
> Linux users can't update the BIOS ourselves.)

Yes, you can.  Use DOS floppies, or a bootable cdrom.  But if you want to
ship it to IBM just for a firmware upgrade, well, it is your thinkpad and
your money :)

> Also it could mention perhaps some URLs on where it got its information
> about what is current from.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade

google knows.  the thinkpad forums knows.  The linux-thinkpad ML knows and
would have told you outright if you had bothered to ask instead of opening a
Debian bug.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh