Re: [PATCH 0/4] EFI envblk

2023-07-28 Thread Glenn Washburn
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:49:06 +0300 "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" wrote: > Have you considered that some firmwares brick if EFI storage is over 50% > full? Why not having a file on ESP instead? What if the ESP is readonly? What if there is no ESP? I take your point about crappy firmwares. As me

Re: [PATCH 0/4] EFI envblk

2023-07-28 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023, 23:03 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, wrote: > Have you considered that some firmwares brick if EFI storage is over 50% > full? Why not having a file on ESP instead? > Yes bricking did happen before. It was triggered by excessive runtime updates of bootloader settings. It did

Re: [PATCH] docs: Improve initrd documentation

2023-07-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Glenn, Thank you for all your work on GRUB. Am 28.06.23 um 12:12 schrieb Glenn Washburn: Remove reference to "initial ramdisk" and replace with "initrd". This then covers the case of ramdisk and ramfs, which is the usual method with kernels 2.6 and greater. Add sentence with URL to initrd

x86: Apply microcode updates in GRUB?

2023-07-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear GRUB folks, On x86 microcode updates often are recommended to be applied to fix bugs. Just recently new microcode updates where published for AMD Zen 2 processors to fix “Zenbleed” [1]. Currently, these updates are shipped and applied by the firmware, and – mainly due to the proprietar