On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 17:48 -0500, D. Jared Dominguez wrote: > Okay, well, I talked to Peter on IRC. He pointed out that: > - While there may be other platforms with firmware update mechanisms > that work in Linux, they're fringe. There's already flashrom, which is also generically named but does support a wider variety of older flash firmware. ethtool can update firmware for some network cards. Many vendors provide specific tools to update firmware on Linux. > - It's in Fedora as fwupdate already, so having a different name is > confusing. Having a generic name which has already been used many times over is also confusing. Having no documentation is *really* confusing. > - Its name doesn't currently collide with other software. Oracle has a program of this name for several operating systems including Linux: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19960-01/html/821-2488/gyuui.html > - If there are other open standards for updating firmware, he'll happily > add support for those. All of them? I doubt it. > So, unless there's a compelling reason (actually several given the > above), I'm going to stick with fwupdate. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
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