There’s a new system firmware release available for my machine (https://fwupd.org/lvfs/device/com.dell.uefie4d7bdc4.firmware). I don’t currently have anything set up in Clear Linux to apply firmware updates so I checked to see what’s available with swupd search fwupd. This listed both fwupdate and firmware-update. I have no idea which is the right bundle, so I just tried adding the fwupd bundle.
When I run fwupdmgr get-updates it tells me I have ‘no remotes configured’, so it appears just installing the bundle isn’t enough.
Does anyone know whether fwupdate or firmware-update is the best bundle to use, and, in either case, where I can find out how to get the update working?
Furthermore after installation fwupdmgr get-devices tells me it’s Unable to determine EFI system partition location. I’m a bit confused about this - mount doesn’t show any efi partitions as mounted, yet I have a /boot/EFI directory.
I’m wondering whether I might need to reinstall a small Windows partition to get my firmware updated.
This bundle and the content needs work. There are several issues that we’ve not gotten to, including the one you listed. Upstream has been helpful, so, we just need to put some time into it to get it working for those who need/want it. Note: we disabled it in the past due to some hardware actually breaking. While that seems fixed now, we never properly refitted everything back together.
The BIOS updates are distributed as win32 executables (thanks Dell). There might be another source for updates somewhere but I haven’t found anything yet.
Bios Update, Intel Integrator Toolkit, and the RAID software are all OS Independent.
I’ve personally used the Bios Update and updated my 8i5 NUC Bios without issue with only Clear Linux installed.
The other software / drivers available currently are only available for Windows 10, so it seems like you wouldn’t be able to install those on any Linux distro.
Good luck!
Edit: Sorry, I see that you did have a link to a post on Intel NUC Community. That HDMI Firmware is OS-specific and is only designed for Windows 10. The original post was regarding a BIOS update, which doesn’t necessarily need to use a computer’s OS.
The HDMI Firmware, however, would need to interact with a computer’s OS.
That Intel Community is probably the better place to discuss the issue of Intel Hardware support for Linux in general.
This is funny. Perhaps even ridiculous. A Linux distro made by Intel “Intel Optimized. Highly tuned for Intel platforms where all optimization is turned on by default” not able to run on very common Intel NUCs.