Re: [tlug] BIOS / Video Problems

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@example.com>]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 7:42 AM, Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I did read about this a while ago and according to one source,
> such as this web site
> (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=135661), Intel SPI
> configurations is set to "N" on Debian systems.  (Does anyone who know
> better can confirm this?  I actually don't know what it means...)
>
SPI is wire protocol for serial communication (Serial Programming Interface).
It is used, among other things, to program the flash that holds BIOS
and its settings.
Hoping debian does provide /proc/config by default, try:

zcat /proc/config.gz|fgrep SPI_INTEL_SPI_PLATFORM

Cheers,
Kalin.