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London, UK
Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software.
He is the maintainer of the LVFS, fwupd, GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management.
Richard graduated from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.
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Although it's indeed focused on Linux, I don't think there's actually any Linux-specific code in fwupd. I've not tried to get fwupd installed on FreeBSD but I think it should be possible if the required dependency versions are in place. Some of the optional plugins are Linux specific (e.g. the UEFI UpdateCapsule one) but you can just compile that out.
HP have not included this model on the LVFS yet, but once they do there's no reason why it shouldn't work.