Fwupd 1.5 Released With Expanded Hardware Support, New Capabilities

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fwupd 1.5 Released With Expanded Hardware Support, New Capabilities

Version 1.5 of the Fwupd utility is available for updating various component firmware/BIOS natively on Linux and integrating with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for the easy distribution of said firmware images...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fwupd-1.5-Released

[hughsie]

I've expanded some of the features here: https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2020...1-5-0-release/

[mr_tr0n]

Does anyone happen to know which Hyper USB-C hub support was added for?

[hughsie]

... which Hyper USB-C hub ...

Just the VIDs and PIDs I'm afraid: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fw...ub-hyper.quirk

[Guest]

- Async versions of the Fwupd library for use by GUI tools to be more responsive without blocking the UI thread or forcing the user-interface to rely on threads.

Or the UI developers could learn how to use threads. What are they going to do for filesystems and networks? Multi-threading is an inescapable part of any UI, on Android and iOS you have no choice.

[mazumoto]

I always wondered if there is a collaboration of some kind between fwupd and flashrom. I used flashrom a few years ago for flashing motherboard bioses and it worked great, but since then flashing newer motherboards became apparently impossible (I think due to undocumented intel me quirks?). I guess fwupd has a larger scope (way more hardware to support), but so far I haven't seen it list any bios update for my motherboards/laptops (though probably the manufacturers don't support the LVFS).