NVIDIA now supporting the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as a premier sponsor

Good to see the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) continues to develop, with it pulling in NVIDIA as a model new sponsor.

What precisely is the LVFS? It is the trendy approach for {hardware} distributors to supply firmware upgrades on Linux that is supported throughout many various distributions. No want for customers to hunt for the particular firmware information direct from numerous web sites, and no have to boot into Home windows simply to do firmware upgrades.

Writing on their weblog developer Richard Hughes announced:

“I am happy to announce that NVIDIA is now supporting the LVFS as a premier sponsor.

The rollout of the NVIDIA DGX Spark firmware utilizing fwupd goes very effectively certainly, with downloads persevering with to extend on daily basis.

This now takes us to 4 OEMs sponsoring LVFS, which suggests we’ve efficiently reached the funding goal we set for ourselves final 12 months. Extra thrilling bulletins coming quickly!”

NVIDIA joins with Dell, HP and Lenovo as Premier Sponsors. At that stage, every firm might be offering round $100,000 USD yearly in funding to the mission. Which for corporations of these sizes, is just about cash they discovered down the again of the couch, however nonetheless good to see Linux firmware updating to be supported like this.

🌐 Exterior Sources: blogs.gnome.org, fwupd.org
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.