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Yeh there are a lot of updates. But (and this has come up elsewhere) people call every update a firmware update and its not. Not every update is a firmware upd
by resonanttoe 9y ago
Yeh there are a lot of updates. But (and this has come up elsewhere) people call every update a firmware update and its not.
Not every update is a firmware update. But every update is a software update.
Firmware in this context is (most likely from what I can tell) 2nd stage bootloader that exists in EFI. It's pretty rarely updated. This is Package1 that they talk about here and http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=System_Versions http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=System_Versions here.
Even less if we're talking about firmware updates that burnt a fuse (bottom of this page http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Fuse_registers#FUSE_RESERVED_ODM7 http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Fuse_registers#FUSE_RE...)
So despite 11 Software updates, there has only been five firmware updates.
When we're talking about fuses odm_reserved has 256 bits to play with. Assuming that one bit is 1 fuse. Then they can do 256 firmware updates before they're in trouble.
Firmware is a pretty horribly misused term these days.
- timdorr 9y agoFair point! Thanks for correcting me and giving more detail.