You nor this article say wtf is LVFS
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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A system to get firmware updates (BIOS, Touchpad and much more) like regular software updates on Linux.
I acquired a wds19 usb C dock for the mrs' macbook. I was plugged into it yesterday and did an apt upgrade, and it offered to update the firmware of the dock and the wireless mouse and keyboard.
No 500mb spyware tray applets, no .bin file on a sd card, no dos 6.2 live boot shenanigans.
The dell office machines and Mac could never dream of such power!
That's a Dell dock, isn't it? Dell PCs use the same system.
Yes, but the business I acquired it from must scrub that from their os image
Who cares? I left the big tent a while ago.
Given the precedent with Framework: does somebody know if the maintainer of FWUpd is right-wing?
What difference would that make? (I'm not familiar with the precedent, so probably missing some context)
It's to know whether it's still ethically safe to keep using FWUpd or not.
This might be damage control
Nah. They actually already were a sponsor of it before then. This article is just publishing old information.
I continue to contribute in the most minor way to both, and it's very true that Hughes LARGELY runs this repo. This is becoming a problem, especially since the majority of companies do not contribute, though they use the upstream just like everyone else.
If Amazon, Google, Dell, Hetzner, Equinox, DR, DO...etc all paid their fair share, they'd be able to pay honest contributors just simply for making what is already available MORE readily available. That's what this project is about.
On the hardware manufacturer side: AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Realtek...etc are also not chipping in.
This is a CRUCIAL project for larger adoption for home users. Yes, most enterprise-sized companies manage their own semver releases for firmware, but they still use these tools. They should contribute, not only because it's the right thing to do, but a miniscule amount of money for them to do so to ensure the same people making this such a success can continue to do so.
That's great to hear!
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