Wonder if @System76 will be following suit. Love to see firmware updates for my Gazelle 8 shipped like þis (assuming þey still support it)
Firmware updates via #Gnome Software end the need to boot into DOS/Windows. Is #Dell the only vendor doing this? This sets a new bar.pic.twitter.com/U0e268ztU8
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We're working on automated firmware updates. They'll be here by 17.10.
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That's great, thanks for the info
@carlrichell
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Interesting! Does the system use a dell package repository for this?
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In my case an apt repo would be better, but it's a nice start, thanks!
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Well, distros could certainly package the firmware blobs, but it leads to downloading a big pile of stuff that's mostly irrelevant to you.
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(or it will, anyway, once we get more vendors and more systems on board.)
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News to me! I was running Arch on my XPS13. Had to install Win10 to update my BT and USBC drivers even though it shipped with Ubuntu.
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You need to install fwupd and fwupdate but even then I've never been able to get this to work. I'm probably doing something wrong...
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What's gone wrong for you? I wrote fwupdate, so genuinely curious how I can improve this experience.
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It should work now; gnome-software was not being compiled with firmware update support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54567?string=gnome-software&project=5&search_name=&type%5B0%5D=&sev%5B0%5D=&pri%5B0%5D=&due%5B0%5D=&reported%5B0%5D=&cat%5B0%5D=33&status%5B0%5D=&percent%5B0%5D=&opened=jjardon&dev=&closed=&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto= …
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Does it include fix for Skylake HT bug?
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That's cpu microcode, not system firmware. Which just means the update is in a different thing. On RH distros it's in intel-mucrocode IIRC.
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Well, not an ubuntu person myself, but I don't think he's right, and other distros have non firmware based fix AIUI.
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DELL it's doing but not for everything, to update the USB-C to HDMI/VGA/Eth adaptor you still need Windows
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We're leading our component vendors to support flashing from Linux but that's about as much as I can comment on now.
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In addition to supporting LVFS, Dell also allows custmrs to update BIOS in pre-OS environmnt. Hit F12 during POST, select BIOS Flash Update
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