Now this is a pleasant and very unexpected surprise... NVIDIA has become the latest premier sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS).

Following [1]Dell and Lenovo becoming premier sponsors in contributing $100k USD annually to the LVFS/Fwupd project and in May [2]HP became the third premier sponsor , announced this morning is NVIDIA becoming the fourth company now contributing $100k+ annually to this project enabling open-source firmware updating on Linux systems.

As part of their motivation for this sponsorship, NVIDIA has been distributing DGX Spark firmware via LVFS/Fwupd. Hopefully we'll see increased usage of LVFS/Fwupd by NVIDIA for their Vera Rubin servers, future platforms, and perhaps even graphics card firmware updates.

LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat [3]confirmed the NVIDIA premier sponsorship this morning.

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The current project sponsors can be found at [5]Fwupd.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd

[3] https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/08/04/nvidia-is-now-supporting-the-lvfs/

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=nvidia_lvfs_sponsor_lrg

[5] https://fwupd.org/