{"id":250292,"date":"2026-05-20T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/hp-now-sponsoring-the-linux-vendor-firmware-service-fwupd\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:15:10","slug":"hp-now-sponsoring-the-linux-vendor-firmware-service-fwupd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/hp-now-sponsoring-the-linux-vendor-firmware-service-fwupd\/","title":{"rendered":"HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service \/ Fwupd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd\">HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service \/ Fwupd<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 06:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t take long. Mere days after Dell and Lenovo began sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as premiere sponsors in contributing $100k+ annually to this open-source firmware updating initiative, HP is also now a premiere sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Following LVFS calls for more sponsorship from the major OEMs\/ODMs leveraging LVFS\/Fwupd for delivering firmware updates to their Linux customers, more companies have been getting involved in sponsoring the project to help push the efforts forward for a better firmware updating story on Linux from system firmware to device\/component firmware updates and peripherals.\n<\/p>\n<p>Lead LVFS\/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced today that HP is the third premier sponsor following Dell and Lenovo.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=hp-z6-g5-a-2026&#038;image=hp_z6g5a_10_med\" alt=\"HP Fwupd usage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HP already supports LVFS\/Fwupd on their hardware from some laptops like the ZBook Ultra G1a to different workstations like the Z6 G5 A and then some peripherals like USB docks. Hopefully this sponsorship leads to more HP devices seeing official LVFS\/Fwupd support.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service \/ Fwupd https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd Publish Date: 2026-05-20 06:32:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=hp-z6-g5-a-2026&image=hp_z6g5a_10","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,94],"class_list":["post-250292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-red-hat-enterprise-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250294,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250292\/revisions\/250294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}