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[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 12:20, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Not always, see Oliver's reply, there is
>
>   fwupdate
>
> For my Toshiba SSDs there's a Linux GUI tool provided, I can launch by
>
>   gksudo ocz-ssd-utility
>
> Toshiba provides additional tools, but I don't know how much you could
> automate by command line. Maybe an check of available updates
> and possible updates of the firmware could be done by e.g. a cron job,
> too.
>
> The repos provide a few "installers", see the output of
>
>   apt list -a '*firm*' 2>/dev/null|grep installer

Yes, I saw it.

Since I moved from tech-support work over to other fields, the amount
of different systems I see and work with has dropped a lot. But
suffice to say I have _never ever_ seen a machine successfully
self-update its own firmware without user intervention, and from a
skilled user, too.

It may happen one day. Gradually the tools are being put in place. But
it does not work yet. Bob's comment was therefore badly wrong.


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