On 08/22/2016 05:04 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My name is Richard Hughes and I work for Red Hat. I'm the maintainer
> of fwupd, an open source firmware update system designed for Linux.
> We're updating thousands of devices every month safely and securely
> using the fwupd and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service. I'm also the
> guy behind the OpenHardware ColorHug device, so I'm particularly
> interested in making firmware updates easy to apply on open source and
> free software devices. I see fx2lafw is using DFU, and fwupd can
> already talk to DFU-using devices using the libdfu library so I don't
> think any actual additional code would be required in fwupd. For your
> device, it would just be creating a cabinet with the required metadata
> included.

Hi Richard,

I'm well aware of your Colorhug, and the fwupd initiative. Kudos on
both, great work!

However fx2lafw doesn't use DFU. It uses a setup that is specific to the
Cypress FX2, and in any case never stores its firmware -- the sigrok
driver just uploads it on the fly as needed.


-- 
Bert Vermeulen
[email protected]

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