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FW_UPDATE(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual FW_UPDATE(1) NAME fw_update -- install non-free firmware packages SYNOPSIS fw_update [-adinv] [-p path] [driver ...] DESCRIPTION The fw_update utility installs, updates, or deletes firmware packages for driver from the Internet. If no driver is specified, the fw_update util- ity tries to determine which firmware is needed on the system. Since firmware with an acceptable license is already present in OpenBSD, fw_update exists purely to deal with firmware that may not be freely dis- tributed with OpenBSD. The options are as follows: -a Install or update firmware for all drivers. It is an error to specify this option with any driver arguments. -d Delete firmware for driver. If used without parameters, delete all firmware that is not required by a driver. If used in con- junction with -a, delete firmware for all drivers. -i Display information about firmware which is installed or missing, and whether it appears to be required by a driver. -n Dry run. Do not actually install or update any firmware pack- ages; just report the steps that would be taken. -p path Use the firmware found at package repository path, being either a local directory or a URL, instead of the default location. -v Turn on verbose output. This flag can be specified multiple times for increased verbosity. Firmware is downloaded from release-specific directories at http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/ The files are in the format re- quired by pkg_add(1), but direct use of pkg_add is discouraged. SEE ALSO pkg_add(1), dmesg(8) AUTHORS The fw_update program was designed by Alexander Hall <alexander@beard.se>; the current code was written by Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>. FreeBSD 13.0 July 24, 2020 FreeBSD 13.0
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