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by doctorpangloss 665 days ago
> The NVMe standard now has a lot of infrastructure for this standardized, including commands to discover device memory topology, transfer to/from that memory, and discover and upload programs.

On the other hand, Windows and Linux still cannot just upgrade the vast majority of firmwares on NVMe devices, least of all consumer ones, despite being completely and utterly standardized.

You have to wonder, if Samsung makes bullshit, and then this https://github.com/chrivers/samsung-firmware-magic becomes part of the ecosystem, why trust the vendors with anything else?
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yencabulator 660 days ago
That repo was last updated 3 years ago, things seem to have changed since.

There seem to be a lot of ISOs for download at https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/t...

The ISO contains an EFI filesystem with grub etc and boots fine without needing Windows.

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znpy 665 days ago
I think i remember upgrading the nvme disk firmware in work dell laptop (dell latitude 7390) from 2019 using fwupd some years ago (not more than 3 years ago).

Also i think i remember fixing (upgrading?) the firmware on a crucial ssd like 5 or 6 years ago using some live linux system (downloaded off the crucial website i think?)

Not sure about windows, but linux is getting incredibly better at this.

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