There was a serious problem in samsung-laptop that its platform driver is
designed to run under BIOS and running under EFI can cause the machine to
become bricked or can cause Machine Check Exceptions.
Discussion about this problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121
The patches to fix this problem:
efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities
83e6818974
samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware
e0094244e4
Unfortunately this problem comes back again if users specify "noefi" option.
This parameter clears EFI_BOOT and that driver continues to run even if running
under EFI. Refer to the document, this parameter should clear
EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES instead.
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:
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noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
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Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt:
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- If some or all EFI runtime services don't work, you can try following
kernel command line parameters to turn off some or all EFI runtime
services.
noefi turn off all EFI runtime services
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Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/511C2C04.2070108@jp.fujitsu.com
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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