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Subject: Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable
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On 05/31/2013 07:42 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> The only ones that are broken are the Samsung ones.  Samsung claims to
> have fixed their UEFI firmware, so we could refer any problems to them.
> 
> The signature of the Samsung failure, which this is guarding against is
> that the laptop gets bricked, so it really is a nasty choice of poisons
> we have to pick...
> 

Are we sure it is only Samsung?  I was under the impression there were
other systems with similar failures?

	-hpa


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