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Please Welcome Lenovo to the LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service)

15 pointsby mfinchamalmost 7 years ago

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usr1106almost 7 years ago
In theory this LVFS is nice. In practice it has always been useless for me, because I have never owned one of not so many machines supported.<p>This morning I tried my ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th, which is now on the list of supported devices.<p>The updater did not find anything to update, although I&#x27;m sure I don&#x27;t have the newest BIOS installed.<p>From reading the article I guess my updater could be too old (not using Fedora 28) or the update is still blacklisted from some other reason.<p>Let&#x27;s see whether this start to work some day...