fwupd ?

Lucien_Lachance

is that something you are supposed to be using?
ive never used it in my life

brent

solus (or any systemd computer) will make use of fwupd to update firmware on it's own, or whatever schedule the OS is on for firmware updates. In other words I think the system utilizes fwupd, not the user per se.

I think.

kaktuspalme

Yes, I use to update the Bios on my ThinkPads.

Lucien_Lachance

kaktuspalme so this happens automatically, or do you have to do something? does this override the bios installed the conventional way?

BuzzPCSOS

Lucien_Lachance I guess this might shed a little light.
To put another way it depends on what you are running. The bios on my Dell was way out of date and did not update using fwupd. Luckily it is an easy task with a USB stick to update Dell bios.

kaktuspalme

Lucien_Lachance Not automatically. Actually on Solus I didn't do it so far. But the process is usually fwupdmgr get-updates
fwupdmgr update

brent

Lucien_Lachance
deps and rundeps are revealing if I see it right--

Dependencies : libgnutls libqmi xz polkit libgusb libjson-glib libxmlb
curl libjcat libgudev systemd libmbim tpm2-tss glibc zlib
libarchive flashrom protobuf-c sqlite3 modem-manager
glib2
Distribution : Solus, Dist. Release: 1
Architecture : x86_64, Installed Size: 45.12 MB, Package Size: 6.38 MB
Reverse Dependencies: fwupd-devel discover gnome-software fwupd-dbginfo
kinfocenter

Harvey

fwupd does not support updating firmware from all vendors nor does it automatically update your firmware without you telling it to, that sounds like a really bad idea. You can use it if you want to but you do not have to.

Many motherboard vendors tell their customers not to update their UEFI/BIOS unless they have a reason do to so. It has inherent risk as a failed update due to power loss in the middle of a firmware update can brick your device and sometimes UEFI/BIOS updates introduce issues. I had to revert a UEFI update and could not update to newer versions for a long time due to it making my system unstable (random reboots).

brent

Harvey 👍️ good to know

riffer

There is a GUI called "Firmware", but i never use it.

Pretty self explanatory terminal commands:

fwupdmgr refresh
fwupdmgr get-updates
fwupdmgr update

If you have a laptop you might have to raise the lid to get all the updates.

It works pretty well but, as Harvey mentions, it doesn't have everything. For example, it will do my Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 8 but not my Thinkpad Pro Dock.

I notice fwupd has been updated. It wasn't working when I installed Solus 4.4 just before 4.5 came out. Fortunately, the snap works fine.

Lucien_Lachance

thanks everyone, ill jsut keep ignoring it then