From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753536Ab3KRTHg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:07:36 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:46279 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752096Ab3KRTHd (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:07:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:07:20 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Matt Fleming Cc: Madper Xie , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [BUG]: DELL XPS 8500 become a brick after fill too many entries to nvram. Message-ID: <20131118190720.GA20875@srcf.ucam.org> References: <87fvr3h3b9.fsf@redhat.com> <20131111110701.GE22636@console-pimps.org> <87eh6nt8oo.fsf@redhat.com> <20131113112052.GJ22636@console-pimps.org> <878uws1msy.fsf@redhat.com> <20131113140647.GK22636@console-pimps.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131113140647.GK22636@console-pimps.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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@srcf.ucam.org