Re: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: amd: Add a quirk for Lenovo Ideapad 5

[Mario Limonciello]

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.