Comment on Idea: hardware manufacturers should publish RSS feeds for firmware updates

superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jlsalvador@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Official Linux RSS about stable kernel releases: www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml

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• IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think I’ve ever gotten bios updates via apt…not sure if that’s a laptop thing, a manufacturing thing, or what.

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  • SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No bios update, but you most likely received both microcode updates (which is what will fix/mitigate the Intel issue, the bios is only to ensure everybody gets the microcode update) and firmware updates (from linux-firmware)

    Of course non-mainlined (i.e. not in the linux kernel) firmware is a bit more iffy, luckily it’s getting slowly better with OEMs using fwupd for those scenarios

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