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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: amd: Add a quirk for Lenovo Ideapad 5
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On 9/14/2023 04:08, Luca Pigliacampo wrote:
> On 9/14/23 10:43, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 11:21 PM Mario Limonciello
>> <mario.limonciello@amd.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 2. In better news updating the BIOS fixed the issue in both Linux and
>>> Windows, no kernel patches needed.
>>>
>>> So no further work will be done on this series.
>> Is it easy for users to update BIOS? I.e. does
>> fwupdmgr update work?
>>
>> Or does it require flashing special USB drives with FAT filesystems...?
>>
>> Because I'm not sure all users will do that. Or even be aware that
>> they should. In that case detecting the situation and emitting
>> a dev_err() telling the user to update their BIOS would be
>> desirable I think?
>>

I'm not sure how to detect it without giving false positives to users
with no problems.

>> Yours,
>> Linus Walleij
>
> sadly it's not convenient,
>
> the only way lenovo offers to update the bios
>
> is an executable to run on windows.
>
>
> So a user should either have a dual boot
>
> or install windows on an external drive and boot from that,
>
> also the update process might wipe every boot entry beside windows.
>
>
> I read that some bios updaters also run on freedos, but i didn't try
>

On some systems Lenovo offers native updates for Linux, but I guess not
this one.

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