Re: Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:48 PM, William Ivanski
<william.ivanski@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I just have read this:
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> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-brick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html
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> And I also found this:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557
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> It seems that kernel's drive "samsung-laptop" can brick Samsung laptops,
> when trying to boot using UEFI.
> It happens on Ubuntu... Can anyone tell me how it is on Debian? Does
> Debian's kernel use this driver too?
"samsung-laptop.ko" is shipped with the Wheezy kernel and has
CONFIG_SAMSUNG_LAPTOP as a kernel config.
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