Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:07:20 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [BUG]: DELL XPS 8500 become a brick after fill too many entries to nvram. |
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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
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