From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.90_1) id 1lKjyE-0001vb-Fm for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:44:58 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48652) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lKjyC-0001nk-QY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:44:56 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:58876) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lKjyB-0000sW-3R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:44:56 -0500 Received: from mail-ed1-f70.google.com ([209.85.208.70]) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lKjy8-00020l-9A for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:44:52 +0000 Received: by mail-ed1-f70.google.com with SMTP id v27so11720366edx.1 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:44:52 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=vcbHEzGKcPQjGeHaGC+Budlh0QINfkltKwbamp9gk3M=; b=a+XSKR9QZXeNwG86k7gynTO13gB3D8YlWTwL6uuNbIaVd5CXM4sTPK2F9BQRmlw/Qv vlfh2O1F+LWKwF8aaCp1s1X3rvKfWn9Fasq7yrwjBdKWngSyK9x8xDXWkac/9XtHQAES 0kuShXu06AMgfl53aSpFjg32mWmJoZjOQjQf94KRFr+W+RMpRC9i/vuq6IjJAv9kM777 3BFA/UdhHsyawmSYadGJNOJElfNqnB8yoPQaqRXe6WPJKDFTXjr1JHxnVkeaXODgOuhB S4mNYdDCxw06f6ef0vB6IY8FWUOFytR6boAJDDKmX7eUManj3Q0nR/iv8oUK+4AnYE0e wVew== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533A/R3Afzhg0tH9lPN2mdg863Ekv0ZHiEMwTLcZfalzr4U+oKuK tFcdrIbgt9ci3K4ooNWwXueOQBMrLkXzR9ugqAh0XR4SvyDNKPsZHBNgOCku77IY/Hu4SWPTqlH bw4UdWM7LxLZLAbfD17x6MjWNiruAYaJ34BgbBv8k7Vms X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:2cd:: with SMTP id b13mr14915317edx.55.1615563892047; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:44:52 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzramBFEK/KsbItlxBPTieV30f3rZQZZGOKaRF0uDCD0h1VTgMbP0/TB+sPQlKfKf+wdE2Au/6+SPoGp0mN6KY= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:2cd:: with SMTP id b13mr14915285edx.55.1615563891835; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:44:51 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Guilherme Piccoli Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:44:16 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Dell BIOS issue reading Disk Extended data To: "Limonciello, Mario" , "K, Narendra" Cc: "Barabash, Alexander" , "Engel, Amit" , "Guilherme G. Piccoli" , "halves@canonical.com" , Jay Vosburgh , Dan Streetman , Gavin Guo , "x86@kernel.org" , "grub-devel@gnu.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Received-SPF: none client-ip=91.189.89.112; envelope-from=guilherme.piccoli@canonical.com; helo=youngberry.canonical.com X-Spam_score_int: -68 X-Spam_score: -6.9 X-Spam_bar: ------ X-Spam_report: (-6.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI=-5, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:44:57 -0000 On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:41 PM Limonciello, Mario wrote: > > > > > Hello Dell folks, I'm Guilherme Piccoli from Canonical - first of all, > > apologies for the out-of-nowhere communication. We've been investigating > > an issue that seems to date long time ago, and eventually we could > > narrow it to what appears to be a Dell BIOS bug. Notice I'm also looping > > a kernel x86 ML and grub-devel, just for the purpose of archiving such > > discussion in public lists, to help others that may find such an issue > > in the future. > > > > Since I don't have contacts of Dell representatives, I've just raised a > > list of people from Dell contributing to kernel in the last 2 years - > > maybe one of you could point me towards the path of a proper > > contact/channel to discuss such an issue. If not, I'm sorry for the noise. > > Let me detail the problem we're observing - notice all of this is about > > legacy BIOS mode, not UEFI. > > Most of the guys you CC'ed from Dell work on client related things, not > servers. So I'll move some of the client guys off of this thread into BCC. > @K, Narendra can you please raise this with the appropriate team? > Thanks Mario and K, Narendra - do we have any news about that? Cheers, Guilherme