Hi, The existing firmware-updates exception was granted by the release team a number of years ago: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/firmware-updates
This worked relatively well at the time, but a few notable changes have happened since then: - More security sensitive updates to the OS such as "UEFI dbx" updates can now be distributed with fwupd. - The ecosystem for firmware updating has since exploded. Hundreds of different devices are available now. - The stack has morphed such that EFI application and Linux software are distributed separately. - In addition to a wide array of unit tests, upstream has adopted a device emulation framework. - Upstream now advertises EOL dates. Considering all of that, I wanted to discuss with the release team to modify the exception used for the firmware updating stack to allow migrations from one stable branch to another; especially considering EOL dates. I've drafted an updated proposal in this wiki page and aligned it directionally upstream: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/firmware-updates-2.0 Can the release team please review and consider this? If approved we can just copy the text from the new page to the old page and delete the new page. Thanks! -- Mario Limonciello supe...@ubuntu.com
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