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Good grief The ineptitude of firmware programmers continues to astound me. Asus should upload their firmware to the LVFS <https://fwupd.org/ https://fwupd.org

by yrro 4y ago

Good grief The ineptitude of firmware programmers continues to astound me. Asus should upload their firmware to the LVFS <https://fwupd.org/ https://fwupd.org/> and make firmware updates as simple as 'fwupdmgr update'.

mkopec 4y ago
You can actually use `fwupdtool install-blob` to update the UEFI if the board supports and uses UEFI capsule update. I did that with my Asus B550-I and it just worked, it reboots to ASUS EZ-Flash and does the update automatically. All Asus would need to do is publish updates on LVFS.
- dev_hugepages 4y ago
  How do you know if the board supports it? Asking because I want to update my firmware for my lenovo legion
  - smileybarry 4y ago
    I would just try it, honestly. Knowing the huge amount of SKUs Lenovo has, it might be a grid of models & “factory BIOS version” that support it.
  - mnd999 4y ago
    Anecdotally, my work Thinkpad just works with fwupdmgr. Lenovo do support this.
  - jeroenhd 4y ago
    I've updated my Thinkpad through the GNOME Software Store at some point, it was listed as a "system update" that automatically used fwupdmgr to install the latest UEFI image. I don't know if the Legion line has the same level of support, but you may just be able to ru "fwupdmgr update" and get prompted to reboot for an UEFI/Intel ME/SSD firmware update.
- yrro 4y ago
  Ooh that's very interesting. I had to reverse engineering the firmware update process for my work laptop[0], I'm guessing the update process there doesn't use capsule updates though... [0] https://robots.org.uk/ToshibaX30X40FirmwareUpdate https://robots.org.uk/ToshibaX30X40FirmwareUpdate
cricalix 4y ago
They have two accounts on that service, and have uploaded firmware, but the one article I can find (Phoronix) indicates in 2020 it was only for a single board. Would indeed be nice if they'd expand that out to more boards.

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Good grief The ineptitude of firmware programmers continues to astound me. Asus should upload their firmware to the LVFS <https://fwupd.org/ https://fwupd.org

by yrro 4y ago

mkopec 4y ago
You can actually use `fwupdtool install-blob` to update the UEFI if the board supports and uses UEFI capsule update. I did that with my Asus B550-I and it just worked, it reboots to ASUS EZ-Flash and does the update automatically. All Asus would need to do is publish updates on LVFS.
- dev_hugepages 4y ago
  How do you know if the board supports it? Asking because I want to update my firmware for my lenovo legion
  - smileybarry 4y ago
    I would just try it, honestly. Knowing the huge amount of SKUs Lenovo has, it might be a grid of models & “factory BIOS version” that support it.
  - mnd999 4y ago
    Anecdotally, my work Thinkpad just works with fwupdmgr. Lenovo do support this.
  - jeroenhd 4y ago
    I've updated my Thinkpad through the GNOME Software Store at some point, it was listed as a "system update" that automatically used fwupdmgr to install the latest UEFI image. I don't know if the Legion line has the same level of support, but you may just be able to ru "fwupdmgr update" and get prompted to reboot for an UEFI/Intel ME/SSD firmware update.
- yrro 4y ago
  Ooh that's very interesting. I had to reverse engineering the firmware update process for my work laptop[0], I'm guessing the update process there doesn't use capsule updates though... [0] https://robots.org.uk/ToshibaX30X40FirmwareUpdate https://robots.org.uk/ToshibaX30X40FirmwareUpdate
cricalix 4y ago
They have two accounts on that service, and have uploaded firmware, but the one article I can find (Phoronix) indicates in 2020 it was only for a single board. Would indeed be nice if they'd expand that out to more boards.