On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 10:59 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel devel@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
Only Dell, HP and Lenovo laptops are fully supported: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/
Not just laptops, desktops/workstations too. In the last six years, I've had five different models provided by my employers and they were all fully supported through fwupd.
fwupd is a great tool on laptops but completely useless on desktops since no motherboard vendors support it.
While most custom-built computers don't get full UEFI/BIOS updates, some hardware manufacturers provide firmware files for components used by other vendors in their boards. It's a far cry from being on par with windows, but calling it completely useless is not true either.
Maybe fwupd should start packaging UEFI BIOS images for desktop motherboards without vendor assistance? Images in BIN format can be easily downloaded from official websites or extracted from MS Windows packages.
That would require people volunteering to potentially brick their machines in order to test the updates. If something goes wrong, the equipment (and the knowledge) necessary to reprogram a chip is rather scarce. I'm afraid the way forward is to _convince_ vendors to make use of the service, starting with those who already have test accounts.