From: Luca Pigliacampo <lucapgl2001@gmail.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
regressions@lists.linux.dev, Shyam-sundar.S-k@amd.com,
Basavaraj.Natikar@amd.com, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: amd: Add a quirk for Lenovo Ideapad 5
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:08:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65ec6171-b47e-4d1e-9bd7-a61f2acfb959@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdamAs=c6YBW2jgQ48kUPHqUGT=b89NSXYYttf0RbnpctQ@mail.gmail.com>
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?
>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-14 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-29 16:56 [PATCH 0/3] pinctrl-amd powerbtn handling regression Mario Limonciello
2023-08-29 16:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] pinctrl: amd: Clear `Less2secSts` and `Less10secSts` for GPIO0 Mario Limonciello
2023-08-29 16:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] pinctrl: amd: Add a module parameter to configure power button behavior Mario Limonciello
2023-08-29 16:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: amd: Add a quirk for Lenovo Ideapad 5 Mario Limonciello
2023-08-29 19:54 ` Hans de Goede
2023-08-29 21:37 ` Mario Limonciello
2023-08-30 15:37 ` Hans de Goede
2023-08-30 15:47 ` Mario Limonciello
2023-08-30 16:18 ` Hans de Goede
2023-08-31 17:53 ` Mario Limonciello
2023-09-12 7:08 ` Linus Walleij
2023-09-12 8:58 ` Hans de Goede
2023-09-12 18:21 ` Mario Limonciello
2023-09-13 21:21 ` Mario Limonciello
2023-09-14 8:43 ` Linus Walleij
2023-09-14 9:08 ` Luca Pigliacampo [this message]
2023-09-14 14:38 ` Mario Limonciello
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