Its fwupd which does the firmware updates , gnome software access it for updates . The cli version is fwupdmgr.
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And your distro may or may not configure it any particular way. OP would need to specify.
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This sounds like you're talking about firmware blobs that the kernel drivers load, which are usually in a package called linux-firmware. It should be updated automatically, but I'll check in the morning with Fedora Silverblue.
Otherwise if you're talking about device firmware, than that's all fwupd, rpm-ostree has nothing to do with that.
rpm-ostree is not really a dnf wrapper. It's more of a wrapper for ostree with some additional dnf functionality.
Iirc, Bazzite (for example) uses fwupd during their update process after rpm-ostree finishes.
AFAIK firmware update is handled by fwupd. Not sure if those wrapper included that.
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