
Traditionally, updating a BIOS or a network card's firmware in Linux meant booting into Microsoft Windows or preparing a MS-DOS floppy disk and hoping everything would work correctly after the update. Periodically searching a vendor website for updates is a manual and error-prone task and not something we should ask users to do. A firmware update service makes it simpler for end users to implement hardware updates.
A firmware update service requires two things:
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Author: hughsie
Published at: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 03:01:00 -0500
Credits: https://www.opensource.com
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