+1 to all the ecological and Right to Repair comments saying you should be able to load your firmware when the vendor does not provide upgrades. I'd say you should have the right to do so even before the vendor stops pushing upgrades, even.
What I'm not getting from this story is why should LVFS even care. It should be configurable with the repository the user wants, and whoever publishes firmware (coreboot, libreboot, etc.) should just put up a compatible repository and serve their work to whoever configured the URL in their systems. I see no reason for it to be different than apt. Differnet distros can use the same package manager software.
There's not going to be a signle answer to whether a version of some firmware is kosher for a system. Different users should be able to choose different projects with different criteria to provide updates. Some users may not want to install updates from projects which might have updated their project but didn't have the hardware, time or infrastructure it to test it on their particular model. Others might want to take the risk and fill bugs (depending on how easy to unbrick they have it), etc. etc.
Institutions may want to run their own upgrade servers for their devices...
What I'm not getting from this story is why should LVFS even care. It should be configurable with the repository the user wants, and whoever publishes firmware (coreboot, libreboot, etc.) should just put up a compatible repository and serve their work to whoever configured the URL in their systems. I see no reason for it to be different than apt. Differnet distros can use the same package manager software.
There's not going to be a signle answer to whether a version of some firmware is kosher for a system. Different users should be able to choose different projects with different criteria to provide updates. Some users may not want to install updates from projects which might have updated their project but didn't have the hardware, time or infrastructure it to test it on their particular model. Others might want to take the risk and fill bugs (depending on how easy to unbrick they have it), etc. etc.
Institutions may want to run their own upgrade servers for their devices...
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