Also, it seems relevant to mention there was a whole blog post about this very topic on the website now:
I found it’s pretty thin on actual contents. The only new thing in there is:
for Linux we’re developing a new updater to handle the specific firmware regions involved.
which, quite frankly, is actually pretty disappointing. I did the 3.06b update on Debian Linux through LVFS and it Just Worked. I understand this update is trickier, but I find it regrettable that we’re building a whole new way to update firmware instead of leveraging what the community has been working really hard on for years at this point, and that has been adopted by many large, much more commercial/proprietary vendors than Framework, including Dell, HP, Lenovo…
Really, I would love to hear more about what the actual problem is with LVFS and whether or not the LVFS people have to say about this… This really sounds an awful lot like what Purism and System76 ended up with, which is that they’ve basically given up on LVFS. I didn’t buy it from them, and I don’t buy it from Framework either.
Surely I must be missing something.