Oy vey folks, why not Google LVFS to see why it's interesting.
There's a new CLI tool and dbus api for discovering and installing firmware updates that are securely hosted by redhat. There is also native support in GNOME Software for surfacing the updates and making them available.
This means on a Dell server, you literally type: `fwupdmgr update` and all possible firmware is updated.
So literally every comment in the thread so far is missing the point. This doesn't require shelling in, putting it in the UEFI partition, orchestrating your infrastructure to reboot the servers into the EFI partition to install and then let it reboot back to Linux. You just type `fwupdmgr update`.
Even Dell's iDRAC server management cards don't allow for firmware upgrades this simple. You'll need their layers of additional (paid) management software to update firmware without having to manually download it from their website.
There's a new CLI tool and dbus api for discovering and installing firmware updates that are securely hosted by redhat. There is also native support in GNOME Software for surfacing the updates and making them available.
This means on a Dell server, you literally type: `fwupdmgr update` and all possible firmware is updated.
So literally every comment in the thread so far is missing the point. This doesn't require shelling in, putting it in the UEFI partition, orchestrating your infrastructure to reboot the servers into the EFI partition to install and then let it reboot back to Linux. You just type `fwupdmgr update`.