Getting additional tools into opnsense?

[JDA]

Hi,

I need some additional tools (and don't want to build them on myself). I tried it with an issue, but no reaction for months :(
I created a PR (based on my naive understanding of the files), but how can I get it checked and approved? See https://github.com/opnsense/tools/pull/422


And I'm really curious - how is anyone updating their Intel NIC firmware on the opnsense boxes? ;)

[Patrick M. Hausen]

opnsense/tools is the wrong project for that. This is the project for the OPNsense build tools, not for any third party tools you might want to run on OPNsense.

You might get more attention in opnsense/core.

[franco]

It's the right GitHub project, but I can't strictly merge more binary blobs for the benefit of one at the cost of everyone's bandwidth and computing time (devs, mirrors, users).


Cheers,
Franco

[meyergru]

AFAIK, the sysutils/intel-qcu ports has been deleted from the ports in 2020.

Intel themselves offer flash updaters for all kinds of OSes in binary form in their Intel Network Driver pack. More often than not, there are EFI tools to do that, so it can be done independent from the OS.