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Re:Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Bac... by wmf on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:21PM (#36141818)
This wouldn't help 99% of Gigabyte customers.
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Re:Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Bac... by wtfishackernews on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:53PM (#36144873)
While fwupd does have a windows client, the obvious mechanism to use would be windows update, but anything is better than custom software for each vendor.
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Re:Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Bac... by yrro on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:26PM (#36153485)
fwupd and Windows Update both use the same underlying packaging mechanism for shipping firmware updates. All my comments apply equally to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/b... :)
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