https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd
That didn't take long. Mere days after Dell and Lenovo began sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as premiere sponsors in contributing $100k+ annually to this open-source firmware updating initiative, HP is also now a premiere sponsor.
Following LVFS calls for more sponsorship from the major OEMs/ODMs leveraging LVFS/Fwupd for delivering firmware updates to their Linux customers, more companies have been getting involved in sponsoring the project to help push the efforts forward for a better firmware updating story on Linux from system firmware to device/component firmware updates and peripherals.
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced today that HP is the third premier sponsor following Dell and Lenovo.
HP already supports LVFS/Fwupd on their hardware from some laptops like the ZBook Ultra G1a to different workstations like the Z6 G5 A and then some peripherals like USB docks. Hopefully this sponsorship leads to more HP devices seeing official LVFS/Fwupd support.
https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/05/20/lvfs-sponsorship-announcement-hp/
Some more great news: I'm pleased to announce that HP has also agreed to be premier sponsor for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as part of our sustainability effort.
With the industry support from HP (and our existing sponsors of Lenovo, Dell, Framework, OSFF and of course Linux Foundation and Red Hat) we can turbo-charge the growth of the LVFS even more. Thanks!
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday May 29, @05:32PM
My limited experience with LVFS mostly on non-integrator hardware is it seems to mostly be for integrators like the linked story. If your hardware does not have TV commercials on CNBC you're probably not going to find upgrades/patches.
I was hoping for some rando ASUS mobo upgrades, but I've not run into one yet.
Its an interesting idea, although I don't seem to own any hardware covered by it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bloodnok on Friday May 29, @09:49PM
HP love having their proprietary binary blobs on your machines, so of course they'll sponsor this.
I once bought an HP printer because it claimed it supported Debian. Well, it kind of did. As long as you didn't mind adding some odd HP site to your sources.list file, and didn't expect it to work once you upgraded to the next Debian version. That printer gave me nothing but trouble and I swore I'd never trust HP again. I ended up giving it away because it had negative value for me.
In my highly prejudiced experience, both firmware blobs and HP are things to avoid. Like the plague.
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