lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2013]   [Nov]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [BUG]: DELL XPS 8500 become a brick after fill too many entries to nvram.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 02:08:14PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:

> OK, it looks like the firmware Boot Manager gets very confused when it
> tries to parse the Boot Load Option you created with efibootmgr. This
> looks like a general firmware bug and not something we need to worry
> about in the kernel.

Well, we do do some parsing of the boot parameters in the kernel in
order to avoid hitting a Tianocore bug. But if the problem is just that
the Dell firmware falls over if it sees something that isn't Unicode, I
don't think we can really work around that.

--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2013-11-19 01:41    [W:1.570 / U:0.052 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site