> The thing that made me decide against HP products was the change on server firmware updates (bios, management controllers, etc) that basically requires an active warranty or service contract for updates. I'm just waiting to see a wormable iLO exploit that's easy to patch... As long as you're a paying HP customer.
LVFS is seeing some success in consumer stuff. I hope it starts to catch on for server gear as well. Then we can start requiring firmware update via LVFS [1] as a hard requirement in RFP's and wave goodbye to these kinds of shenanigans.
[1] https://fwupd.org/ . This uses UEFI Capsule support to distribute and install the updates, similar to what apparently Windows is also doing these days.
LVFS is seeing some success in consumer stuff. I hope it starts to catch on for server gear as well. Then we can start requiring firmware update via LVFS [1] as a hard requirement in RFP's and wave goodbye to these kinds of shenanigans.
[1] https://fwupd.org/ . This uses UEFI Capsule support to distribute and install the updates, similar to what apparently Windows is also doing these days.