linux-kernel - Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

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Date:	Fri, 31 May 2013 07:45:10 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
CC:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
	joeyli <jlee@...e.com>, Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	matt.fleming@...el.com, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable
 info to runtime code

On 05/31/2013 07:42 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> The only ones that are broken are the Samsung ones.  Samsung claims to
> have fixed their UEFI firmware, so we could refer any problems to them.
> 
> The signature of the Samsung failure, which this is guarding against is
> that the laptop gets bricked, so it really is a nasty choice of poisons
> we have to pick...
> 

Are we sure it is only Samsung?  I was under the impression there were
other systems with similar failures?

	-hpa


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