alt Hacker NewsIsn't this pretty much standard in this day and age? HP for example also has this option in BIOS for their laptops (but you still can either download the BIOS blob manually in Linux or use the automatic updater in Windows if you want).
Isn't this pretty much standard in this day and age? HP for example also has this option in BIOS for their laptops (but you still can either download the BIOS blob manually in Linux or use the automatic updater in Windows if you want).
> Isn't this pretty much standard in this day and age?
If something is "standard" nowadays does it mean it is the right way to go ?
One of my main issues is that this means your BIOS has to have a WiFi software stack in it, have a TLS stack in it etc. Basically millions of lines of extra code. Most of it in a blob never to be seen by more than a few engineers.
Though in another a way allowing BIOS to perform self updates is good because it doesn't matter if you've installed FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows, <any other os> you will be able to update your BIOS.