I’m very excited for this to have the battery woes improved, since I still get sudden shutoffs with battey reporting around 40% and weird fan issues. It has a nice write up as well with both terminal and GUI walkthrough.
Seconding @NineX concerns though, I was also looking to find how we verify where the ISO pulls from since the 2021-09-02 date seems more recent than the latest Master commits. I was probably looking at the wrong tree per above notes.
Low level security with Pureboot is the primary reason for a lot of us to have bought a Librem in the first place, so some more assurance with version tracking of the releases somewhere would be positive.
However, I also really want to say +1 to the comments by @NineX. I find it fishy to download a firmware from a blog post link without any version number.
At first I was even doubting whether this is different/newer update than the one I already flashed some weeks ago . Only reading the comment from @NineX cleared this up.
Finally, who is the intended audience for this blog post? I think it is good that you suggest a GUI, but then you should maybe also mention that the ZIP download needs to be extracted first to get an ISO file that gnome-multi-writer can flash.
it’s the current HEAD of master branch in the Librem-EC repo:
There were a few commits added to auto-build the EC firmware/update ISO via CI, so the EC firmware is functionally identical to the 2021-08-03_05d9990 release in the ‘releases’ repo. I agree we can/need to do a better job on release naming/tagging
there’s no need to update if you are already running the 2021-08-03_05d9990 release, it’s identical to that on the live ISO other than the version string. We’ll be tagging future releases to avoid confusion going forward
well of course, you have to follow the part of the directions to download/extract the tool, as it’s not part of PureOS. If you’re booting the update USB/ISO, the tool is already installed. And if you’re downloading/running it on a live system, you’d use ./purism_ectool since it’s not installed in a location in the system path
Thanks for the guide! I was just able to go through the process, and was happy with how easy and quick it went.
I believe there is one more L in the word “controller” (I double checked this wasn’t a cool “referer” thing, but I’m not from the embedded hardware world, I don’t know how cool kids there spell. )
When running sudo ./purism_ectool flash ec-1.9_2022-06-30.rom, I get an error and then my machine immediately reboots (probably to restore the backed up v1.7 ec firmware).
Am I doing something wrong with applying this update? I am very excited to see if this update solves the coil hum issue my Librem 14 has (and so is my partner, who has much more sensitive ears than I).
I not have my Librem 14 just now to tell exact syntaxis.
Just execute the option flash_backup instead flash so like:
./purism_ectool flash_backup ec-1.9_2022-06-30.rom # check that option to make sure.
The issue I was having was that running the above command gave me ~2 seconds post-failure before a hard reboot. If I recall correctly, it was an expect error (something like ‘5 is not 0’). However, running ./purism_ectool flash_backup ec-1.9_2022-06-30.rom instead of ./purism_ectool flash ec-1.9_2022-06-30.rom did in fact allow the update to succeed. I’m still unsure of the differences between these two subcommands (as they are not documented anyware, AFAICT), but at least I was able to apply the update. Thanks for You help, @carlosgonz and @Gavaudan!
Just updated EC to version 12… hoping to address some of the strange charging behavior I’ve been dealing with. I’m still trying to figure out how to consistently reproduce this, but is anyone else out there have their Librem abruptly power off when you disconnect the barrel jack to the power supply? It seems like it happens to me when the battery power is high (above 90%).
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