Those are considered firmware, yes. And these can vary in their installation as being updated via the firmware interface itself or some other update mechanism.
Some firmwares like on certain IBM thinkpads, my surface pro 6 and others can be updated directly via a Linux command called fwupd, but the firmwares must live in specifics public repositories.
This news means we’ll all have a much better time using fwupd to update these on dell and lenovo machines, but the firmwares themselves will remain proprietary blobs.
Coreboot replaces the bios/firmware altogether, and it’s not an easy task to get new ones, unfortunately.
the alternative is manually (and somewhat regularly during your hardware’s support period) searching a manufacturer’s web site for a bios update, hoping that your bios has a built-in flasher or there being at least a boot disk or ‘dos’ flasher you can slap on a usb to do it… lvfs is a good thing.
So why this company and not coreboot?
NovaCustom uses Dasharo, developed by 3mdeb. Isn’t that better?
https://github.com/Dasharo/coreboot
This is talking about fwupdt firmware and patches, not uefi/bios replacement.
Isn’t uefi bios firmware? What’s the difference?
Those are considered firmware, yes. And these can vary in their installation as being updated via the firmware interface itself or some other update mechanism.
Some firmwares like on certain IBM thinkpads, my surface pro 6 and others can be updated directly via a Linux command called fwupd, but the firmwares must live in specifics public repositories.
This news means we’ll all have a much better time using fwupd to update these on dell and lenovo machines, but the firmwares themselves will remain proprietary blobs.
Coreboot replaces the bios/firmware altogether, and it’s not an easy task to get new ones, unfortunately.
Ah, thanks. So this is just an open source tool for closed source crap.
the alternative is manually (and somewhat regularly during your hardware’s support period) searching a manufacturer’s web site for a bios update, hoping that your bios has a built-in flasher or there being at least a boot disk or ‘dos’ flasher you can slap on a usb to do it… lvfs is a good thing.
Oh, surely it is a good thing.
But I think we can demand lenovo to just source hardware with libre firmware. That’s a better thing.