[ltp] using Middleton BIOS on Linux (for SATA2)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer., 2013-01-23 at 18:18 +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
> > Most probably, nobody ever had any problems with the Middleton BIOS,
> > but
> > all the contrary. This fine piece of hacker wisdom solved multiple
> > issues regarding some essential features which the original Lenovo
> > released BIOS never ever provided.
> 
> And as always, when giving such kind of advice, care should be taken to
> warn about the real risks. BIOS is at the real core of the system, just
> on top of the hardware. You have to trust Lenovo on this, but since you
> bought a Lenovo system it makes sense. Now you have to trust random
> people giving you a binary which has basically full power on your
> platform. You're free to do whatever you want with that, but remember
> bricking your laptop is basically the less serious problem which could
> happen.

Eh, depending on where you live, you can just binary-diff the two BIOSes
(may have to uncompress them first) and check the changes -- and just the
changes, you know...

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh