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[Marcel Oats]

Yes, they have it in their laptops, usually, not sure about the later 
ones though.

Marcel
At 10:43 PM 12/10/2006, you wrote:
>HI, i'm not sure if this applies to the current conversation here, 
>but an interesting note.
>Toshiba makes a bios utility for windows you can read everything 
>with in the bios, change the boot order and all that. I'm not sure 
>how you could actually program one of those for LInux, but maybe you 
>could contact Toshiba and talk to thems.
>On 10/12/2006 at 4:41 Gregory Nowak said
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>On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:21:04PM +1300, Marcel Oats wrote:
> > The other think we could
> > think about, are why companies such as Asus have not made a piece 
> of windows
> > software that is able to read the bios parameter block on their
> > boards, and allow the user to change them, in a nice accessible
> > interface.
>
>Why limit it to Asus, why not ask the same thing of all companies
>producing motherboards and bios code? Actually, I think that if AMI
>and Award were to include it in the base bios, the mb companies
>probably wouldn't pull it out.
>
>\as for the why, I'm willing to bet that it's because they don't care,
>because they think the RND would be too expensive, and probably
>because these companies think the market for something like this is
>too small. Granted, something like this wouldn't probably cost too
>much to develop. While we're discussing things to think about, if such
>a utility were developed, it would be nice to find it on the CD that
>comes with the mb, instead of having to pay for yet another program,
>because you have a disability, and most other people don't. Oh one
>more thing, let's not limit it to windows, arguably, I think such a
>utility would be easier to program as a gnu/linux text-based
>application, though since I haven't done hardware driver programming
>under gnu/linux, I could be wrong in my estimate of the difficulty level.
>
>Greg
>
>
>
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