Fwupd: Updating Firmware in Linux

&gt; By default, any users are able to install firmware to removable hardware. The logic here is that if the hardware can be removed, it can easily be moved to a device that the user already has root access on, and asking for authentication would just be security theatre.<p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fwupd.org&#x2F;users.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fwupd.org&#x2F;users.html</a><p>But it is not given that a user has physical access to the machine, is it?<p>Well... I guess that&#x27;s why it says &quot;By default&quot;, and you can configure it? Seems targeted at desktop installations?

The big question is, what vendors will use this system instead of their own horrible systems?

Interesting development. Is there info anywhere of manufacturers who have undertaken to provide updates through this system?

this has come at a good time. nearly all thinkpads are undergoing bios updates because of a security issue.. but cannot be done on Linux.<p>I wonder if someone can build a howto for Thinkpads on Linux.

This is actually pretty sweet. If you are running a non-linux OS you could just reboot into a live disk and pull down all of the updates.<p>Take it a step further, you could just PXE-boot into a scripted image that loads up and checks for FW updates, then reboots into the default OS when complete.

Why can&#x27;t this be done using standard ways, like deb packages?

This completely ignores the &quot;evil maid&quot; scenario.

Is it restricted to gnome?