Comment by heavyset_go
6 days ago
If it's Dell, they're one of the most prolific, if not the most, on LVFS. All of my Dell hardware gets firmware updates via fwupd. Dell is conservative with marking their BIOS updates, though, and you might have to enable the testing LVFS repository for regularly updated BIOS.
If you mean HP EliteBooks, it doesn't have to be any more complicated than 1) extract BIOS archive 2) drag & drop BIOS file 3) reboot.
You download the BIOS update .exe, run 7zip on it, and take the BIOS.BIN file and either stick it in the root of your EFI partition and it will install automatically on boot, or just run `fwupdtool install-blob BIOS.BIN` and it will install automatically on reboot.
HP publishes updates to LVFS regularly for both their laptops and their thunderbolt docks(!)
I believe Elitebooks are Ubuntu Certified, which I would imagine gets their firmware updates pushed to LVFS.
Personally, with the Thunderbolt Dock 4 and an HP ZBook G10, I have gotten timely (<30 days of release) automatic updates from LVFS for both on Ubuntu/Fedora with 0 effort on my part.
Thanks I'll check out for my 840. Didn't know about this.
Just an update...learning something thanks...installed fwupd and it said something about disabled service.
Ran fwupdmgr (thanks Google) and it lists a whole bunch of hardware on my laptop as "device with no update found", included in that are UEFI device firmware, UEFI dbx, System firmware etc.
I will check further, thanks again. Didn't know about this.
Sorry for mixup. I have both but in this case I was referring to Dell latitude not HP Elitebook.
I'll check on the point you have made, see if I can update bios. Thanks.