https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510173

--- Comment #5 from Matthias Klumpp <[email protected]> ---
Oh, there absolutely *will be* firmware components outside of fwupd. Fwupd
primarily deals with flashed firmware, but there is also a ton of runtime
firmware that is flashed, well, at runtime and distributed by the respective
Linux distribution. 

Giving the OS a way to install packages containing it on-demand was one of the
ultimate design goals of AppStream (same with drivers, although fortunately
most of them are now in the kernel). You can read more at
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Firmware.html

>From a quick check at Debian, Debian actually contains a ton of firmware
components, and even more apps/components that expose modaliases to advertise
enhanced hardware compatibility.

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