Porting fwupd to the BSD distributions

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Porting the fwupd daemon and LVFS support to FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD, describing implementation challenges of firmware update systems on BSDs and the concrete porting steps based on prior implementations. It will cover extending LVFS functionality to BSD families, explain the fwupd/LVFS chain of trust, and invite feedback from the BSD community for development considerations.

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