My boss and I were talking more about how to convince vendors to care about uploading firmware for their devices.
Another suggestion is something like https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/7219 -- to allow us to collect data to say to the vendor '12,345 Linux users are not getting firmware updates for model ABC' which is a bit more convincing than throwing our hands in the air and mumbling about Linux market-share.
I've also written some of the webservice side, e.g. something like this -- for LVFS admins at the moment -- but I suppose I could expand this so that Lenovo could see devices from Lenovo for example.
BIG ASK: Could a few people build fwupd from the git main branch and then run "fwupdmgr report-devices" please. I need a bit of real world data to work on the server side report pages.
Checking out the code, then doing ./contrib/setup sets up all the build stuff you need -- and you don't need to replace your system fwupd at all. Thanks!
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