Anyone use bhyve via Windows or Linux VM or linuxemu to update BIOS updates? Is that possible?

Direct access via linuxemu or pci pass thru with a VM?

skered: wouldn't fwupd be a much better candidate? freebsdsoftware.org/sysutils/fwupd.html

If fwupd worked on FreeBSD.

Last I checked it didn't

oh, i wasn't aware of that

i spotted av.tib.eu/media/48081 but i'm not sure what (if anything) came out of it

And that's why you don't even run fwupd on FreeBSD :)

Just listing devices it kernel paniced

some bios updates can just be installed by placing them in a certain directory structure on a fat32 file system, sometimes including ESP.

it seems that there is still no good solution for a case of: a zfs native encrypted homedir, mountable on ssh login with a key? with pam it's possible to do that for a local login or a for ssh with password, but not for the pubkey method