i can't update ssd firmware without windows question

[Phil4037]

I am using Linux Mint operating system, Recently i just got my brand new Samsung 980 NVME SSD, please i would like to know how do i update ssd firmware without windows? I put ISO on my flash drive

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/tools/ 

[maird]

If the ISO has a fully embedded installer the system OS shouldn't matter, just boot the ISO. If the ISO only has a Windows executable based installer you can probably run it on linux in WINE but it won't discover any local devices on the host because WINE doesn't support the I/O device pass-through functionality required for the updater to find the disk or modify the firmware. If the boot linux is not on the SSD you want to update the firmware on then you should be able to pass through the host physical device to a qemu or vmware VM, boot Windoze in that VM and use the updater there. It certainly works for qemu and USB devices (I used a Windoze only firmware updater on a USB calculator that way yesterday) but I understand you can also pass through PCIe devices with qemu. If I'm correct the linux system would have to have no SSD file systems mounted on the host while doing this firmware update. Samsumg won't respond to the following but considering data center host platforms tend to be linux based even if most booted images are Windows, then not supporting linux based updating of SSD firmware is a serious miscalculation that will lead to very large scale users of Samsung SSDs drift to other brands that support linux based update of the SSD firmware. I'm speaking as a single user of only linux and Android who has one Windoze qemu based VM for just this type of problem but Samsung's miscalculation is the reported problem when it applies to the thousands of SSDs common in datacenters.

[Phil4037]

Moderator, i need more help

[Memory Product Expert -1]

Hello Phil4037 

Just to confirm, is the new 980 your OS drive or a secondary storage drive?
Are you able to post a picture of how the 980 is showing up in your Dell BIOS? 
Also, can you provide the model of the computer as well?