11th Gen Intel Core BIOS 3.20 Release and Driver Bundle Update

Framework Laptop 13
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Wanted to provide some steps for those of you that don’t want to update with a usb stick and have an appropriately sized ESP/EFI partition to hold image updates:

I store the images in a directory for the hardware type, eg:

# ls /boot/efi/EFI/Insyde/
CapsuleApp.efi  H2OFFT-Sx64.efi  firmware.cap   startup.nsh
FWUpdLcl.efi    bootx64.efi      hx20.3.20.bin  winux.bin
Fwupdate.bin    error.log        old

I also have created an EFI shell file

% cat /etc/grub.d/31_efi_shell 
#! /bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
set -e

[ -d ${pkgdatadir:?} ]
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
. "$pkgdatadir/grub-mkconfig_lib"

echo "Adding efi  shell" >&2
cat << EOF
menuentry 'EFI Shell ' \$menuentry_id_option 'jared' {
EOF
      ${grub_probe:?} --version > /dev/null
      prepare_grub_to_access_device "$(${grub_probe} --target=device /boot/efi/)" | sed -e "s/^/\t/"
cat << EOF
        set root=(hd0,gpt1)
	chainloader /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
}
EOF

The file that is in /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI comes from the zip file.

For those of you that date back to the DOS days you can see what I did here. You could unpackage things in what will end up FS0:/EFI/BOOT/ as well if you want it to automatically update semi-unattended and you could tell grub to boot thatles next time around.

If you edit the startup.nsh and remove the logo file winux.bin you will get the text based update and be able to see the various components update - I would suggest removing this but i’m also a grumpy old guy who doesn’t load remote images and thinks text/html rendering in e-mail is an abomination :slight_smile:

Thanks @Kieran_Levin

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