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Does anyone know why fwupd/LVFS uses a separate repository to download from instead of downloading from a distro's repos like we already do for all packages?
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Originally posted by uid313 View Posthttps://fwupd.org/vendorlist
Vendors include Dell, Lenovo, HP, Intel.
Notably absent is AMD, Asus, Asrock and Gigabyte.
This is more for OEMs (that actually make a device firmware) than IC designers/manufacturers.
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Vendors include Dell, Lenovo, HP, Intel.
Notably absent is AMD, Asus, Asrock and Gigabyte.
If I were to buy a laptop it would be a Dell XPS.
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Originally posted by AsuMagic View PostFor a second I thought LVFS was yet another filesystem. Thank god it wasn't.
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Originally posted by Schugy View PostThanks for the news. My Ideapad G50-45 that was once sold with FreeDOS will never get Spectre and Meltdown fixes then.
Vendor: LENOVO Version: A2CN23WW(V1.05) Release Date: 07/08/2014
Besides, it's a sub-500$ laptop, you should be already be happy that they didn't fuck up the firmware so bad that Linux kernel panics on boot (as happens way too frequently with HP laptops nowadays).
EDIT: for the sake of making it more clear, I mean that unless you are using a nutjob distro your laptop will be OK even if the board firmware will never be upgraded again.Last edited by starshipeleven; 06 August 2018, 08:45 AM.
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Originally posted by Schugy View PostThanks for the news. My Ideapad G50-45 that was once sold with FreeDOS will never get Spectre and Meltdown fixes then.
Vendor: LENOVO Version: A2CN23WW(V1.05) Release Date: 07/08/2014
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For a second I thought LVFS was yet another filesystem. Thank god it wasn't.
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On Ubuntu 18.04 (fwupd 1.0.6-2) it worked out of the box for my ThinkPad T470s.
Correctly detected a running system, found a firmware and updated it to the recent version without any issues.
Simply amazing, wow.
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Support for Linux on HP laptops is non-existent. In work, I'm forced to use HP ZBook Mobile Workstation, with the G3 version they pretended, with G4 they stopped even pretending and officially dropped support for Linux. Firmware updates require Windows and .Net framework for anything other then UEFI, fortunately, UEFI can be updated form the UEFI itself.
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Thanks for the news. My Ideapad G50-45 that was once sold with FreeDOS will never get Spectre and Meltdown fixes then.
Vendor: LENOVO Version: A2CN23WW(V1.05) Release Date: 07/08/2014
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