• tal@lemmy.today
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      The OS will stage it, and the update will actually happen on reboot.

      If you’re using a Linux system, you probably have fwupd installed, which can pull down BIOS updates for various attached devices, including motherboard BIOSes. I’m sure that Windows has some analog.

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        OK but was programming interface of BIOS always connected to the system? I thought you needed a programmer to flash it.

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          Even in DOS days you could flash it from the running system. It was so common that for a while flashing a vendor’s BIOS update entailed booting from a DOS bootdisk.