On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 07:01 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:

Hi,

I just now get the first time a BIOS upgrade request on my Lenovo Thinkpad through Gnome Software on TW.

Nice :)

Where is this coming from? Is it save to apply it from Gnome Software? Typically I boot into Windows to use Lenovo's tooling for that purpose but if it works also reliably that way fine for me. I am just _really_ surprised that and how this is integrated into TW talking about hardware detection and finding the right upgrades from a vendor. Are there any details somewhere describing that feature?

The tooling used underneath GNOME Software is fwupd and fwupdmgr. fwupd contacts the 'LVF service' (Linux Vendor Firmware Service; fwupd.org), where the vendors themselves are able to publish their firmware. Since the vendor uploaded the firmware to LVFS, it is as secure as much as you trust the vendor not trying to give you a broken firmware just because you run Linux. Hth, Dominique