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

[Anne Wilson]

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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
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"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."
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>> Mageia is most likely also affected by this.
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> 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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