Fwupd integration

gozo

Dear Solus Team,

My distribution of preference is Solus. The best Linux on the plane. The only thing that I miss is the lack of fwupd support. I've just tested the functionality of firmware + fwupd by upgrading BIOS on my Dell laptop and it worked flawlessly. I did it on Arch based distro.

I know that upgrading BIOS can brick the machine. All right. But it should be up to the user to take the risk.

In a previous post on this forum, from Nov 2019, I saw there are some other technical limitations that prevent Solus from implementing this functionality so I'm wondering whenever there is progress in this regard?

Thanks!

Girtablulu

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/3177-gnome-firmware/2

gozo

Girtablulu yes, that is the one from Nov 2019. I was wondering whenever there may be an update to the issue? The answer pretty much provided a hard stop to this very important subject.

Thanks!

Harvey

gozo
If you read the post you would see that clr-boot-manager is one of the blockers and upstream (Solus are not the developers behind cbm) don't seem to be interested in supporting it. So no, there is no progress.

Also its important to note its not a huge issue as pointed out by DataDrake

fwupd is not a requirement for updating firmware. You can do this using the manufacturer provided tools for your motherboard. We also provide updated microcode from Intel and other firmware from linux-firmware over at kernel.org. TSX is disabled in the kernel and we don't support BMC as this is a desktop OS.

Source: https://dev.getsol.us/T2532#161686