[CentOS] HPE ProLiant - support Linux Vendor Firmware Service ?

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Mon Jul 1 23:49:04 UTC 2019


On Jul 1, 2019, at 16:47, lejeczek via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote:
> So far it looks like not many people here if any at all, use
> fwupd/LVFS which is a bit surprising to me since this if
> what Redhat promote as a solution universally supported by
> increasingly more hardware vendors.
> I do upgrade UEFI/BIOS on my Dell Latitude with fwupd, have
> had for last couple of years and it works beautifully,
> though my other Lenovo e485 is missing from fwupd.

If you check out the device list:

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devicelist

You can see that not a lot of older hardware is supported.  Dell seems to do a better job than others, although I’m glad to see Lenovo has most of their recent thinkpads there now. 
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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>



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