Reply With QuoteUEFI the anti-linux technique.Originally Posted by phoronix
Did anyone expect anything good ?
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Linux Bricks Some UEFI Samsung Laptops
Phoronix: Linux Bricks Some UEFI Samsung Laptops
Generating a fair amount of attention today is word that when booting modern versions of Ubuntu -- and other Linux distributions -- on Samsung laptops that utilize UEFI, Linux can actually brick the system. There's now an urgent Linux kernel patch underway...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI4ODQ
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UEFI the anti-linux technique.
Did anyone expect anything good ?
Junior Member
Correction
A Samsung linux driver bricks some Samsung laptops. Obviously it has little to do with Linux as a whole.
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Samsung sure provides the users with an additional freedom to destroy their hardware via software methods if they wish to : http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/201...ur-chromebook/
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And also this one : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...3&cid=42737901
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Maybe it is the Samsung laptop that is bad if it can get bricked so easy?
If software can brick the system, then the system is faulty to begin with.
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Indeed. All the more power for µ$.
But some idiots did expect and still do expect. Canonical was/is among them. That's why I find this very sad news and major PR catasthrope still very hilarious.
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Stupid engineers is the problem. Not UEFI.
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I'm not so sure about this:
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/fo...14372428/read/
In such case uefi is worthless and dangersous anti-Linux troublemaker.
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Flashrom can brick just about any board. So most systems fall into your wide-casting net.
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