On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 9:58 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not entirely sure which laptop it is, with laptop manufacturers > > often re-using model names over several years, but "HP 6730b" seems to > > be basically from July 2008 (going by the service manual I found). So > > we're talking 15 years ago, and yes, EFI was likely *much* less > > reliable back then. > > > > Yeah. What we might consider is keying off of the UEFI revision field > at a certain cutoff value (e.g., only support this for ~v2.4 or > higher) Oh I actually really like that idea. I didn't realize it was possible. Let's just choose a quite modern UEFI revision, and then we won't need to deal with the horrors of the past. And eventually what is quite modern now will be old and widespread. Jason
