There have been a few claims of intent to provide firmware tools for linux, from the vendor. So far I haven't seen anything.
The windows tools limit you to firmwares that enable features supported by the os, so no real MT support unless you use the windows 7 loader. You can load firmware onto the device from a windows 7 instance inside VirtualBox (not the ose which doesn't support usb).
Some people (including me) are working on trying to read the firmware version from linux, but its not a high priority at the moment.
There have been a few claims of intent to provide firmware tools for linux, from the vendor. So far I haven't seen anything.
The windows tools limit you to firmwares that enable features supported by the os, so no real MT support unless you use the windows 7 loader. You can load firmware onto the device from a windows 7 instance inside VirtualBox (not the ose which doesn't support usb).
Some people (including me) are working on trying to read the firmware version from linux, but its not a high priority at the moment.