No. Despite not directly causing the bricking, the samsung-laptop driver will only work in CMS mode and will cause random and potentially very bad problems when running under UEFI. The driver support issue is separate from this bug.
On 23 May 2014 22:59, Val <1040...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > @Aki Rossi: if handling of UEFI variables was changed in Ubuntu 13.10 to > prevent tickling this bug and (supposedly) the newer Samsung firmware is > not vulnerable to this bug, is it now good time to remove the samsung- > laptop driver from blacklist? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040557 > > Title: > UEFI boot live-usb bricks SAMSUNG 530U3C,np700z5c laptop > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557/+subscriptions > -- Aki Rossi -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040557 Title: UEFI boot live-usb bricks SAMSUNG 530U3C,np700z5c laptop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
