40.21 Olive Firmware Upgrades
20220829
Olive is a Dell XPS13 9380. See Section 40.19 for details.
Firmware Update 20220117
The system started booting into BusyBox with a initramfs
prompt. Typing exit reported that /dev/nvme0n1p7
(the boot drive) needed a fsck. So:
This quickly finished, with inode fixes, etc., and then another exit and it booted into Ubuntu.
Firmware Update 20200824
$ sudo fwupdmgr upgrade
* Thunderbolt Controller has the latest available firmware version
* PM981 NVMe Samsung 512GB has no available firmware updates
Upgrade available for System Firmware from 1.8.0 to 1.11.0
XPS 13 9380 must remain plugged into a power source for the duration
of the update to avoid damage. Continue with update? [Y|n]:
Downloading 1.11.0 for System Firmware...
Fetching firmware https://fwupd.org/downloads/
60344cbcc1f3c061ea202e1c7d7cc9c6333f0f070eba09fc8ef27114fe3ced35-
XPS_9380_1.11.0.cab
Downloading. [***************************************] Less than one minute remaining.
Decompressing. [***************************************]
Authenticating. [***************************************]
Updating System Firmware.[ \ ]
Scheduling [***************************************]
Successfully installed firmware
* Touchpad has no available firmware updates
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