Once upon a time, Solomon Peachy <pizza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > None of the other SSDs I have deployed (Samsung and Crucual SATA) are > updatable via LVFS, unfortunately. But, hilariously, both Samsung and > Crucial's official updaters appear to be self-contained linux ISOs. So > clearly the technical capability is there... The difference is often the update method. fwupd supports a specific standard way of applying firmware updates, but often things use very proprietary methods. Some storage may not support applying updates while be accessed for example (so have to boot from ISO/etc. to apply while unmounted). While there's a standard for updating UEFI firmware, lots of motherboards still use older custom methods. Also, many are unable to carry over config properly, so they reset all settings on a firmware update (which is problematic and arguably a reason for making it harder to do). I think most of the systems I've used that support fwupd UEFI updates are able to do so without a config reset. Which... having to have a config reset on a firmware update in this day is so dumb. Very rarely do config options change (and even then, it is typically "new options added", not old options changed), so there's really no excuse for not storing the config in a forward-compatible way and restoring those settings after a firmware update. Dell PowerEdge servers have managed this for years, why can't they apply it to everything? And also, why can't Dell get PowerEdge updates into LVFS? :) -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
