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Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops (The H)
The H reports
that booting with UEFI can brick some Samsung laptop models; this can
happen regardless of whether secure boot is enabled. "The Ubuntu
development team has held talks with Samsung staff, who have identified the
kernel's samsung-laptop driver as the prime suspect. This driver has
previously had issues – it had caused problems for other Samsung laptop
owners when booting Linux using UEFI. Also involved in analysing the
problem is Intel developer Matt Fleming, who posted two kernel changes for
discussion a week ago."
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Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops (The H) Posted Jan 30, 2013 15:28 UTC (Wed) by ledow (guest, #11753) [Link]
Reminds me of the I2C driver that the kernel shipped and which bricked quite a few IBM laptops before people found the culprit.
These things happen.
Just glad that I never enabled UEFI booting at all, anyway, on my Samsung laptop. Not that I've install Ubuntu recently, except into virtual machines.
The next question - the same one I asked with the I2C problem on IBM laptops - why does a machine become unbootable unless the drivers are literally doing something like writing over the ROM or similar?
Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops (The H) Posted Jan 31, 2013 13:53 UTC (Thu) by shlevy (subscriber, #87221) [Link]
The fix is in mainline: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;...
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