Re: [tlug] BIOS / Video Problems

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Kalin,


On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@example.com> wrote:
> 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


Thanks a lot!  I didn't quite understand the issue when I first read
about it, but certainly an OS update that prevents access to BIOS
surprised many -- the bug report for this on Ubuntu's bug reporting
system had a lot of angry people.  That is actually what I remember
and what caught my attention at first...

Ray