> I know BIOS update is easy, but to update Thunderbolt firmwares (and some others), I need a fully functional WIndows.

You can update Thunderbolt firmwares via Linux as I know. But for now you still have to compile soft. I hope soon it'll be fixed

> I know BIOS update is easy, but to update Thunderbolt firmwares (and some others), I need a fully functional WIndows. You can update Thunderbolt firmwares via Linux as I know. But for now you still have to compile soft. I hope soon it'll be fixed

Correct. This is something we're actively working on with Intel. We released this just before Christmas:

https://github.com/dell/thunderbolt-nvm-linux 

FYI: I tried to build it but I had some gcc error and I haven't enough time to figure it out. deb packages or live usb can bring more  beta testers :)

Can you share what your error was?  There's obviously a lot of areas that need to be compiled right now.Was it with compiling the dell force tool or with thunderbolt-user-space?

We're still working on integration with fwupd.  When all of that work is done and in a stable released version we'll release binary packages (deb's)

Thanks Yury and Jared

I can't believe how SW development and engineering have been regressed!

I chose XPS 13 as my Linux dev platform to avoid all the unnecessary headaches and hassles, and now I need to dig deeper and deeper to use Dell's own external monitor!

It just reminded me old Slackware days which I never have wanted to return back again!

Because I do not believe building from source code anymore, I'll wait for a deb packaged version, if I can't get a bootable Windows image with updates.

Thanks

ozj

Heh.

No, I was wrong - deb package is also broken. Look at size

564 thunderbolt-daemon-16.2.57.13-1.x86_64.deb

and content

dpkg -L thunderbolt-daemon
/usr

I've done it manuall

sudo cp ../thunderbolt-software-user-space/thunderbolt-daemon-build/bin/thunderboltd /usr/bin

sudo cp thunderbolt-software-user-space./ThunderboltService/Linux/config/thunderbolt.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/

sudo /usr/bin/thunderboltd

But looks like I haven't new version of firmware for my controller

Update this controller: 03001575
to the image in file:
payloads/0x075B.bin

current NVM version: 18.05

image NVM version: 18.05

Would you like to proceed? [yes/no] no

Never mind,

cpack -G DEB   works as expected. Thanks :)

Hi Mario,

Sorry for late answer.

thunderbolt_icm was build without any issue

lsmod|grep thunderb
thunderbolt_icm        45056  0

But I can build but can't install daemon. Here is my steps:

1. git clone github.com/.../thunderbolt-software-user-space.git

2. cd thunderbolt_icm

3. git checkout fwupdate

# next steps - from INSTALL.daemon
4. mkdir thunderbolt-daemon-build
5.  cmake ../ThunderboltService/Linux -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
6.  make  #no any problem here
7. sudo make install

make: *** No rule to make target 'install'.  Stop.  <- here is an error

Thanks in advance for any help