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ISO upgrade method

To upgrade your EC using the ISO method, you’ll need your Librem 14 charging and a USB drive you can completely erase:

Download Librem 14: Updating the EC - ISO

Hardware upgrade method

Keeping your Librem 14 EC firmware updated is simple with the above ISO upgrade method. Still, for those needing to recover or test development EC builds, this video will explain how to upgrade your EC with a chip programmer.

Download Librem 14: Updating the EC - HW

EC-related software

• Librem EC firmware source code

  • For hints about usage and development, please see the Librem EC wiki

• coreboot repo

• ACPI Linux kernel driver

  • Used to get access to user space settings in the EC like charge thresholds, programmable LEDs etc.

Updating the EC firmware

• Using a Live ISO

• Using a Chip Programmer

Installing the EC ACPI Linux kernel driver

• PureOS: sudo apt install librem-ec-acpi-dkms

• QubesOS

• Alpine Linux and derivatives: sudo apk add librem-ec

• Arch Linux and derivatives: yay -S librem-ec-acpi-dkms

• Fedora

• GUIX