Hello, Recently, I've found that u-boot has initial support for UEFI Capsule Update [1]. Most of the openSUSE-supported boards support u-boot located on SD card, and this feature has little sense to it. Some boards, i.e. EspressoBin [2], have dedicated SPI flash for storing u-boot loader. They are similar to big computers, where we have flash chip of the motherboard for UEFI firmware. Usually, updating u-boot on such boards consists of googling an instruction and blindly following commands provided in it.
I have an idea how to this user experience could be improved within openSUSE distro. I would like to discuss the following. What if openSUSE u-boot rpm packages would additionally provide prepared and signed UEFI capsule along with fwupdmgr local metadata. Then it would be possible for end user just to run `fwupdmgr update` and activate firmware update. [1] https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/v2021.04/board/emulation/qemu_capsule_update.html [2] https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:EspressoBin [3] https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd#local-metadata
