From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 07:45:10 -0700 Message-ID: <51A8B776.8040701@linux.intel.com> References: <20130529224645.GA16582@sgi.com> <1369880172.17397.11.camel@linux-s257.site> <20130530221737.GA11105@sgi.com> <20130531101250.GD30394@gmail.com> <20130531123015.GC17843@nazgul.tnic> <20130531124356.GA8212@gmail.com> <20130531143425.GA5850@srcf.ucam.org> <1370011357.1913.15.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1370011357.1913.15.camel-sFMDBYUN5F8GjUHQrlYNx2Wm91YjaHnnhRte9Li2A+AAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Matthew Garrett , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Jiri Kosina , Russ Anderson , joeyli , Matt Fleming , matt.fleming-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, x86-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org 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