On Mon, 11 Nov, at 08:38:31PM, Madper Xie wrote: > > m...@console-pimps.org writes: > > > On Mon, 11 Nov, at 02:15:22PM, Madper Xie wrote: > >> Howdy all, > >> For now we ensure at least ~5kb free space. But my dell xps still > >> become a brick after I add too many entries to my nvram. So maybe 5kb > >> is not safe enough. and 5kb is just aginst Samsung's laptop. > >> So should we enlarge EFI_MIN_RESERVE? > > > > Urgh............. > > > > Thanks for the report. Could you provide some more details? > > > > - Is your machine definitely bricked? > Yes, pretty sure. After I press power button, the screen shows "DELL" > and hangs. I can't step into any configure interface and the keyboard is > dead. (NumLock led on, and I can't turn it off.) Of course my kernel > won't be loaded. The only way to fix it is change the jump line which is > on the motherboard.
OK, that's pretty conclusive. Thanks. > > - Have you got a dmesg from the machine before it broke? > No. But with a diagnostic kernel(without change the behavior of > efi. Simply print total size and remain size when I write something to > nvram. Provided by Lenny), I got following output: Have you been able to calculate the safe limit of NVRAM we need to reserve to avoid bricking your machine? I was interested in the DMI and other firmware strings from dmesg. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
