LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) Celebrates 9th Birthday
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from pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to linux@lemmy.ml on 21 Aug 2024 16:45
https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1011695
from pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to linux@lemmy.ml on 21 Aug 2024 16:45
https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1011695
Happy Birthday to the LVFS
9 years ago today I wrote 4 little PHP scripts and pushed it to OpenShift which was the beginning of the LVFS. We’ve since rewritten it in Python, switched the deployment from “sudo git pull” on the server under my stairs at home (literally) to deploying onto AWS with Terraform.
In 9 years we’ve onboarded over 140 vendors, shipped ~110 million firmware files and added support for ~85 firmware update protocols for ~1600 different devices. I’m pretty happy with that.
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Coincidentally, I received a firmware (EFI) update from Dell today via LVFS. Really nice that it works so smoothly on native Linux (no more manually downloading firmware to USB drives, or relying on Windows).