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Message-ID: <031c2a8c-7bc7-4ab8-a288-136eb5a78865@amd.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:38:01 -0500
From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
To: Luca Pigliacampo <lucapgl2001@...il.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>, regressions@...ts.linux.dev,
Shyam-sundar.S-k@....com, Basavaraj.Natikar@....com,
linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: amd: Add a quirk for Lenovo Ideapad 5
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@....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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