Hmm. Depending on what benefit flashing to 2.26 provides, as a buyer that might be something I would want? (sorry, I'm not clued up on the Radeon 7000).
Thank you for taking a swing at it anyway. It was probably a silly question. Who knows what folks would want?
Yeah, I'm not sure if the update provides anything more than minor fixes. I should probably just get the OSX machine set up. It would be nicer to just install the cards in a six slot Mac and flash them there. Of course, I could Xpostfacto the six slot Mac, I guess. Is that still available? I never used it back the day. I was a very late OSX adopter and never really liked it much.
I've been installing the new chips blank and then flashing to 2.08, because the Radeon 2.08 installer will flash a blank chip. It'll be another step to update to 2.26.
Alternatively, I could just pre-program the chips with 2.26 rather than flashing them -- although flashing them with Radeon's flasher utility provides a nice test that they update properly. If any user wants to drop back to older firmware, that ability is already tested.
Okay, I'm just kind of mumbling out loud here.