[Mageia-dev] Critical Samsung UEFI bug: "Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops"

Wed Feb 6 15:21:20 CET 2013

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+On 05/02/13 07:27, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> Johnny A. Solbu skrev 1.2.2013 06:57:
+>> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-brick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html
+>>
+>>
+>>
+>> 
+"Booting Linux using UEFI just once on various Samsung laptops is
+>> enough to permanently stop them working. Several reports have
+>> been posted on the Ubuntu bug tracker, but the problem is likely
+>> to also be present in other Linux distributions, as it appears to
+>> be caused by a kernel driver for Samsung laptops. Kernel
+>> developers are currently discussing a change which would disable
+>> the driver when booting via UEFI."
+>> 
+>> Mageia is most likely also affected by this.
+>> 
+> 
+> 
+> Well, sort of... but it's not so "critical" as we dont support
+> UEFI Installs / boots OOB so far, so people have to to many things
+> manually to boot in UEFI mode.
+> 
+I'm trying to understand how users of brand new hardware will manage
+this.
+
+Have you seen
+http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/hardware-neutrality-uefi-strikes-again-and-again/4150?tag=nl.e011&s_cid=e011
+?
+
+If even a live CD can toast hardware, where does that leave us?
+
+Anne
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