Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:38:01 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: amd: Add a quirk for Lenovo Ideapad 5 | From | Mario Limonciello <> |
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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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