hughsie Yes, that's valuable and sensible and it's great that FWUPD exists and more manufacturers start supporting it.
However for BIOS updates that was always the way I updated my BIOS. Download the firmware manually from the website of the manufacturer and then manually upgrading the BIOS either via the provided tools (Windows) or via the update mechanism the BIOS itself provided.
Since unfortunately most manufacturers still provide the update tools only for Windows, I'm glad that the update via BIOS exists.
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Originally posted by baka0815 View Post
Can't you update most consumer boards via BIOS?
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Originally posted by wizard69 View Post
This is the problem, we need more motherboard vendors onboard. This is a great idea and will help Linux “look” more professional but that only if we can buy products that use FWUPD.
on the otherhand I’m pretty sure many vendors like HP don’t give dAmn when it comes to firmware support. It really looks like we have run into a situation where vendors don’t want to support their hardware.
I have a GIGABYTE board where I just insert an USB stick with the new firmware and reboot into the BIOS to update the board from the stick.
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Originally posted by r1348 View Post
Uhm no, UEFI on HP laptops can self-update from an ethernet connection, not needing any OS. I'd still like fwupd support though.
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Originally posted by r1348 View Post
My ASRock motherboards don't support *any* OS-level firmware update, you need to load the firmware file on an USB key and update from there. On one hand, this makes them OS agnostic, as long as your OS can unzip a file and put it on a USB key. On the other end, yeah fwupd support would be nice.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostSadly, no desktop motherboard support fwupd. I find it disappointing to not see Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, MSI, etc support fwupd.
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Originally posted by alcalde View Post
So the article claims it's a "triumphant success with growing industry adoption from major hardware vendors" and yet no normal person can use it? :-(
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Originally posted by Schugy View PostThere are three ways to update UEFI on my HP notebook and all three need windows. A zip file with a .bin and a .sig file would be sufficient.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostSadly, no desktop motherboard support fwupd. I find it disappointing to not see Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, MSI, etc support fwupd.
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