Linux @lemmy.ml lemmur @szmer.info 3 wk. ago

Does dnf/rpm-ostree update firmware drivers

Hi, I'm wondering if dnf or rpm-ostree (from what I understand, a dnf wrapper) does handle updating firmware drivers? I've uninstalled gnome-software and now I don't know if I should update firmware with some other command, or does the "rpm-ostree update" command do it?

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Its fwupd which does the firmware updates , gnome software access it for updates . The cli version is fwupdmgr.
- And your distro may or may not configure it any particular way. OP would need to specify.
  
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fwupd
firmware drivers

This sounds like you're talking about firmware blobs that the kernel drivers load, which are usually in a package called linux-firmware. It should be updated automatically, but I'll check in the morning with Fedora Silverblue.

Otherwise if you're talking about device firmware, than that's all fwupd, rpm-ostree has nothing to do with that.
rpm-ostree is not really a dnf wrapper. It's more of a wrapper for ostree with some additional dnf functionality.

Iirc, Bazzite (for example) uses fwupd during their update process after rpm-ostree finishes.
AFAIK firmware update is handled by fwupd. Not sure if those wrapper included that.
- damn

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