Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86/reboot, efi: Use EFI reboot for Acer TravelMate X514-51T"

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Mar 12 2020 - 06:46:43 EST


On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 04:33:42PM +0800, Jian-Hong Pan wrote:
> This reverts commit 0082517fa4bce073e7cf542633439f26538a14cc.
>
> According to Acer's information, this reboot issue is fixed since 1.08
> and newer BIOS. So, we can revert the quirk.

We can?

How do you know *everyone* affected will update their BIOS?

And what's the downside of keeping it?

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