Comment on Idea: hardware manufacturers should publish RSS feeds for firmware updates
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 months agoI don’t think I’ve ever gotten bios updates via apt…not sure if that’s a laptop thing, a manufacturing thing, or what.
Comment on Idea: hardware manufacturers should publish RSS feeds for firmware updates
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 months agoI don’t think I’ve ever gotten bios updates via apt…not sure if that’s a laptop thing, a manufacturing thing, or what.
SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 3 months 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
fwupdfor those scenarios