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Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service
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this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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Ah, thanks. So this is just an open source tool for closed source crap.
the alternative is manually (and somewhat regularly during your hardware's support period) searching a manufacturer's web site for a bios update, hoping that your bios has a built-in flasher or there being at least a boot disk or 'dos' flasher you can slap on a usb to do it... lvfs is a good thing.
Oh, surely it is a good thing.
But I think we can demand lenovo to just source hardware with libre firmware. That's a better thing.