On 9/14/2023 04:08, Luca Pigliacampo wrote:
On 9/14/23 10:43, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 11:21 PM Mario Limonciello
<mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx> wrote:
2. In better news updating the BIOS fixed the issue in both Linux and
Windows, no kernel patches needed.
So no further work will be done on this series.
Is it easy for users to update BIOS? I.e. does
fwupdmgr update work?
Or does it require flashing special USB drives with FAT filesystems...?
Because I'm not sure all users will do that. Or even be aware that
they should. In that case detecting the situation and emitting
a dev_err() telling the user to update their BIOS would be
desirable I think?
I'm not sure how to detect it without giving false positives to users
with no problems.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
sadly it's not convenient,
the only way lenovo offers to update the bios
is an executable to run on windows.
So a user should either have a dual boot
or install windows on an external drive and boot from that,
also the update process might wipe every boot entry beside windows.
I read that some bios updaters also run on freedos, but i didn't try
On some systems Lenovo offers native updates for Linux, but I guess not
this one.
