Thunderbolt NVM's for Dell laptops

[Mario.Li...@dell.com]

Hi,

 

So far there haven’t been any thunderbolt NVM images posted publicly to LVFS for any vendors that I’m aware of.  I’ve gotten feedback from a lot of people asking where the images are for Dell?

There’s some internal stuff I’m working through on this to make it happen seamlessly and automatically, but in the interim I have generated CAB files for all the NVM images posted to the Dell eSupport catalog.

 

I’ve posted them to the “testing” remote on LVFS.  I did a quick smoke test on one of the machines here, but I’d like some more feedback before promoting them to stable.

• Thunderbolt NVM for Latitude 5480
• Thunderbolt NVM for Latitude 5580
• Thunderbolt NVM for Latitude 7275
• Thunderbolt NVM for Latitude 7280
• Thunderbolt NVM for Latitude 7285
• Thunderbolt NVM for Latitude 7370
• Thunderbolt NVM for Latitude 7380
• Thunderbolt NVM for Latitude 7480
• Thunderbolt NVM for Latitude E5570
• Thunderbolt NVM for Precision 3510
• Thunderbolt NVM for Precision 3520
• Thunderbolt NVM for Precision 5510
• Thunderbolt NVM for Precision 5520
• Thunderbolt NVM for Precision 7510
• Thunderbolt NVM for Precision 7520
• Thunderbolt NVM for Precision 7710
• Thunderbolt NVM for Precision 7720
• Thunderbolt NVM for Xps Notebook 9250
• Thunderbolt NVM for Xps Notebook 9350
• Thunderbolt NVM for Xps Notebook 9360
• Thunderbolt NVM for Xps Notebook 9365
• Thunderbolt NVM for Xps Notebook 9550
• Thunderbolt NVM for Xps Notebook 9560

Testing them requires running on kernel 4.13 or later and fwupd 0.9.7 or later.

If you run on kernel 4.13 or 4.14 you’ll need to have a Thunderbolt device plugged into your Type-C port to update.

If you run on 4.15-rcX and fwupd 1.x there is some special logic in place that would power up the thunderbolt controller even if nothing is plugged in.

 

I’d love any feedback, positive or negative.  Positive would be great so that they can be promoted from “testing” though 😊

 

Thanks,