Package & Integrate fwupd (T2532)

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Marc Van Giel (#marcvg), 2017-02-10 14:22:26 UTC

Actionable Item: Integrate fwupd (pulled from repo due to lack of integration points) in various tools and software in Solus. The should likely be:

• Package fwupd and deps
• Software Center - Firmware installation and updating. Relevant upstream repo here however no upstream issue, not necessary. See KDE Discover #318 and GNOME Software #319.
• Track and land upstream clr-boot-manager fwupd support, pending issue here. PR here.

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Beatrice T. Meyers (#DataDrake), 2017-02-17 21:52:16 UTC

Please format according to the following:

https://wiki.solus-project.com/Package_Requests

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Marc Van Giel (#marcvg), 2017-02-20 09:49:36 UTC

More information about vendor support here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fwupd

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Beatrice T. Meyers (#DataDrake), 2017-02-23 18:42:33 UTC

This is going to have to wait until appstream-glib gets updated.

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Nathan Caldwell (#saintdev), 2017-02-26 00:09:02 UTC

I could not find a complete list of vendors that use this technology, but Dell is one of them.

It's kind of hidden in the End Users page of the fwupd site.

https://secure-lvfs.rhcloud.com/lvfs/devicelist

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Ikey Doherty (#ikey), 2017-04-12 23:17:54 UTC

fwupd is going to need managing by clr-boot-manager. Please note that it is NOT PERMITTED for any Solus package to contain /boot files anymore. I'm planning for clr-boot-manager to manage fwupd though, so I'd like to see this in the repo, with that exception :)

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Michael Tintiuc (#michaeltintiuc), 2017-06-29 12:47:33 UTC

Happy to see that this is going to be implemented at some point, looking forward to that.

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Philipp (#der_eismann), 2017-10-09 08:58:37 UTC

#ikey, anything new after 6 months?

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Pierre-Yves (#kyrios123), 2017-10-09 09:11:27 UTC

! In T2532#83543, #der_eismann wrote:
#ikey, anything new after 6 months?

See here : clearlinux/clr-boot-manager#77

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Marc Van Giel (#marcvg), 2017-10-10 13:34:50 UTC

Note: fwupd-1.0.0 released.

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2017/10/09/fwupd-hits-1-0-0/

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Joey Riches (#joebonrichie), 2017-11-30 17:44:25 UTC

Saving ikey some time for when he gets to this, also interested in playing around with supported firmware myself.

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Martin (#baimafeima), 2017-12-06 14:19:15 UTC

I suppose before updating firmware there must be a way to find out what firmware it is that I have on my computer. Is such a probing function integrated with fwupd or would a tool like MEAnalyzer be necessary? See: https://github.com/platomav/MEAnalyzer

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Marc Van Giel (#marcvg), 2017-12-06 14:39:05 UTC

Device/hardware detection is part of fwupd.

fwupdmgr get-devices
Displays all devices detected by fwupd.

I would assume that it only detects supported devices.

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Willi Mutschler (#wmutschl), 2018-01-23 20:39:44 UTC

Hi, I have a Dell XPS 13 and used fwupdmgr in Ubuntu to update my firmware. Now I am using Solus and tried to install fwupd with snap, i.e. as root user (or with sudo):

snap install uefi-fw-tools
snap connect uefi-fw-tools:fwupdmgr uefi-fw-tools:fwupd
uefi-fw-tools.fwupdmgr refresh
uefi-fw-tools.fwupdmgr get-devices

However, the only thing it finds is:

XPS 13 9360
Guid:                 5ff..................
DeviceID:             UEFI-5ff........
Provider:             UEFI
Flags:                internal|allow-offline|require-ac|supported
Version:              0.2.4.2
VersionLowest:        0.2.4.2
Created:              2018-01-23

What am I missing?