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foo12baryesterday at 8:17 PM1 replyview on HN

What do you plan to do about firmware updates?


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cogman10yesterday at 8:34 PM

Believe it or not, it's actually easier to handle on linux than it is on windows now [1]. Normal caveats apply, it depends on your HW manufacturer. However, a lot of them are participating which makes it pretty slick.

And, assuming your are doing x86, you probably already have an EFI partition so even doing motherboard bios updates isn't much of a big deal. You just drop the update in the FAT32 EFI partition, reboot, and point the motherboard at that location. Some motherboards even support just doing that as part of an online update.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fwupd

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