linux-kernel - Re: [BUG]: DELL XPS 8500 become a brick after fill too many entries to nvram.

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Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:07:20 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Cc:	Madper Xie <cxie@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [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@...f.ucam.org
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