Re: Why eeprom driver is read-only ?

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On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:08:26 +0200, Ranran said:

> What is the reason that kernel driver of eeprom is configured only as
> read-only ?

Probably depends on the hardware.  I'm pretty sure that *some* eeproms
are writable.

> Is it because the BIOS is stored there ?

Remember that the BIOS is stored in one of what may be several eeproms in the
system - graphics cards and other controllers probably have their own eeproms.

You might want to think about why most systems do a restart after updating the BIOS,
and then ask yourself if you really want to write to it while the system is up....

> Is there a way to make it writable ?

Depends on which eeprom you're talking about.

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