I am sorry but I am going to join the chorus of people here and say that I’m deeply saddened by this state of affairs.
I’m one of the early adopters of the 3.06 beta BIOS update. I installed it, from Linux, and it worked, it was great. I was expecting this to come out of beta months ago. Now there’s a 3.08b available, and not only is it not available on LVFS/Linux, even the EFI option has been pulled.
Now, it seems the framework team has moved on to other things, and I’m left holding the bag, with a basically backdoored BIOS.
This is, quite plainly, unacceptable. I’ve been recommending Framework left and right, thinking you folks had our backs, but now it seems we (the free software community) are left holding the bag and will have to reverse engineer your stuff to get updates delivered properly.
For me, this clearly shows that Linux is a second-class citizen for Framework. This would never happen to the Windows or Chrome sides of the business. Can you imagine Framework coming out “oh yeah, poor windows users sorry you’ll have to boot a Linux OS to install that update?” Nevermind than that would actually be possible for windows users: Live linux distributions are actually a thing, and quite popular tools even for windows users to recover their mess.
In fact, why isn’t this the way updates are delivered? Linux is easy to embed in a thumb drive to deliver updates…
Anyways, having some word about a timeline on Linux support for the BIOS from the framework team would be much appreciated here. Maybe @Matt_Hartley knows?