Update tools (fwupd, swupdate, ...)

[Lee Fisher]

On 5/7/20 9:16 PM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:

> On Fri, 8 May 2020, at 03:33, Adriana Kobylak wrote:
>> Doing some exploration on firmware update tools for openbmc.
>>
>> Vikram mentioned that Intel would be looking at implementing fwupd 
>> (https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/docs/+/27576/).
> I don't have anything of substance to add, but +100 for adding fwupd
> support!

+100 also.

These days, you should not buy a Linux system if it isn't supported by
FWupd.

FWUpd is now a Linux Foundation project.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2019/03/lvfs-project-announcement/

Fwupd is to Linux as Windows Update is to Windows, the main method for
updating firmware.

If OpenBMC doesn't support FWUpd they'll need to duplicate most of the
infra that FWUpd has.

Having OpenBMC support FWupd would be a very good security feature.