Updating the firmware on a RPi

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I have F34_IOT running successfully on a RPI4. However I notice that I am not running the latest firmware:

[root@pi31 efi]# dmesg | grep firmware
[    6.731817] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 2020-10-08T16:55:24

However F34 does have a more recent firmware available:

[root@pi31 efi]# rpm -qa | grep bcm
bcm283x-overlays-20210430-1.1a46874.fc34.aarch64
bcm2711-firmware-20210430-1.1a46874.fc34.aarch64
bcm2835-firmware-20210430-1.1a46874.fc34.aarch64
bcm283x-firmware-20210430-1.1a46874.fc34.aarch64

What have I overlooked? Is there something I need to do to get the firmware loaded?

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I would think the firmware would be upgraded with the RPM install.
I’m using the RPi foundation kernel so I can get accelerated graphic support (that Fedora doesn’t provide). The recommendation is to clone the repo and update which is what I did)
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/RaspberryPi#Updating_the_eeprom_on_RPI4

[michael@dirac Desktop]$ dmesg |grep firmware
[ 0.113310] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 2021-04-21T15:48:42, variant start_x
[ 0.117321] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Firmware hash is a48d332c35ee1c1c1ab433228e23317f62dcc5fb
[ 11.592444] vc4-drm gpu: bound fe600000.firmwarekms (ops vc4_fkms_ops [vc4])
[michael@dirac Desktop]$ rpm -qa |grep bcm
libcmis-0.5.2-10.fc34.aarch64
bcm434xx-firmware-20210125-1.83938f7.fc34.noarch
bcm283x-overlays-20210430-1.1a46874.fc34.aarch64
bcm2711-firmware-20210430-1.1a46874.fc34.aarch64
bcm2835-firmware-20210430-1.1a46874.fc34.aarch64
bcm283x-firmware-20210430-1.1a46874.fc34.aarch64
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That is an interesting page. I will have to try that out.