Re: [BUG]: DELL XPS 8500 become a brick after fill too manyentries to nvram.

[Matthew Garrett]

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.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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