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[$] Reducing the bandwidth needs for fwupd
Tuesday September 5, 2023. 09:38 PM , from LWN.net
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)
provides a repository where vendors can upload firmware updates that can be accessed by the fwupd firmware update daemon on Linux systems. That mechanism allows users to keep the hardware components of their systems up to date with the latest firmware releases, but it has gotten so popular that the daily metadata queries are starting to swamp the LVFS content delivery network (CDN) server. So Richard Hughes, who developed fwupd and LVFS, suggested that it would make sense to start looking at ways to reduce that burden; the idea was discussed in a recent thread on the Fedora devel mailing list.
https://lwn.net/Articles/943498/
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