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HP Is the Latest to Sponsor the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)
This comes as great news after Dell and Lenovo announced earlier this month their support for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), which provides a portal for device firmware updating on Linux-based operating system via the fwupd software.
HP is joining Dell and Lenovo as premier sponsors of the LVFS, as part of the project’s new sustainability effort, complementing start-up sponsors like Framework and OSFF (Open Source Firmware Foundation), as well as engineering support sponsors like Red Hat and The Linux Foundation.
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HP Joins Dell and Lenovo in $100K Annual LVFS Sponsorship
HP just became the third major hardware manufacturer to throw serious cash at the GNU/Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). We’re talking $100,000+ per year as a premier sponsor, matching the commitments Dell and Lenovo made just weeks ago. Richard Hughes, the LVFS creator and fwupd maintainer, announced HP’s sponsorship on May 20th.
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Richard Hughes: LVFS Sponsorship Announcement: HP
Some more great news: I’m pleased to announce that HP has also agreed to be premier sponsor for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as part of our sustainability effort.
With the industry support from HP (and our existing sponsors of Lenovo, Dell, Framework, OSFF and of course 'Linux' Foundation and Red Hat) we can turbo-charge the growth of the LVFS even more. Thanks!
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Good News! After Lenovo and Dell, Now HP Pledges to Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service
As long as I've been a Linux user, I can remember one of the biggest issues being firmware support on the kernel.
The issue has been notorious, with a lot of new users being discouraged immediately after joining, and the benevolent dictator Linus Torvalds himself giving the bird to Nvidia, a sentiment shared by almost every user who had tried to make Nvidia work on Linux a few years ago.
Things have been getting better recently, though, especially with LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) on the scene now, providing hardware vendors a portal to upload firmware updates, which can then be downloaded and installed by users through clients such as GNOME Software or fwupdmgr.