Fwupd 1.8 Released With New Capabilities, Expanded Hardware Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fwupd 1.8 Released With New Capabilities, Expanded Hardware Support

In addition to "Fwupd Friendly Firmware" getting off the ground, this week also marks Fwupd 1.8 as the newest version of this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easy system and component firmware updating on Linux and other platforms...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fwupd-1.8-Released

[tildearrow]

Are consumer motherboards supported yet?

[RahulSundaram]

Are consumer motherboards supported yet?

It's the other way around. The h/w vendors have to add support for it. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pi...il/000070.html announced recently makes it easier but ultimately it's up to the vendors.

[caligula]

I don't have any consumer devices with any kind of support. Yet I have three x86 computers.

[direc85]

Finding out I can update the fw in my Logitech Unifying receiver with fwupd was a nice surprise. That fw being updatable in the first place was even nicer updte

[castlefox]

Any hope of Samsung making it's NVMe firmware with FWUPD one day?
I havnt found a easy way to update my Samsung NVMe drives.

[numacross]

I havnt found a easy way to update my Samsung NVMe drives.

Samsung is publishing bootable ISO images for that.