Just like AMI, Phoenix is a huge firmware vendor, providing the firmware for millions of machines. If you’re using a ThinkPad right now, you’re most probably using Phoenix code in your mainboard firmware. Phoenix have been working with Lenovo and their ODMs on LVFS support for a while, fixing all the niggles that was stopping the capsule from working with the loader used by Linux. Phoenix can help customers build deliverables for the LVFS that use UX capsule support to make flashing beautiful, although it’s up to the OEM if that’s used or not.
It might seem slightly odd for me to be working with the firmware suppliers, rather than just OEMs, but I’m actually just doing both in parallel. From my point of view, both of the biggest firmware suppliers now understand the LVFS, and provide standards-compliant capsules by default. This should hopefully mean smaller Linux-specific OEMs like Tuxedo and Star Labs might be able to get signed UEFI capsules, rather than just getting a ROM file and an unsigned loader.
We’re still waiting for the last remaining huge OEM, but fingers crossed that should be any day now.
