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This is horribly misleading - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/44694.html http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/44694.html has some more details. But the short version is that

by mjg59 10y ago

This is horribly misleading - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/44694.html http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/44694.html has some more details. But the short version is that Lenovo are force-enabling a feature that ensures they get better power management, and which is unsupported under Linux because Intel have never submitted code. If Intel ever do so (or if someone else writes it), Linux will just work.

sounds 10y ago
It's not horribly misleading, Matt. If you view it from the perspective of the average Linux user, I think you'd agree that: 1. Lenovo is usually one of the first choices for a Linux laptop. 2. Lenovo obviously has made the call here to ignore the Linux community on their forums. 3. Lenovo has actually stated "This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft." -- whatever that means. 4. Win10 dropped the requirement that Secure Boot can be disabled. This has already been filed as a complaint to the EC: I remember when in 2012 secure boot was announced for the new Windows 8. I am from Spain, and at that time a lawyer (Jose Maria Lancho[1]) that was the president of a Spanish LUG (Hispalinux) create a official complain to the European Commission about the Windows 8 certification program in relation with the requirements of Secure Boot. At that time the certification program describe that one of the requirement was to have an option to disable SB via UEFI, but only for desktops and laptops, but not for tables. Now this option is not anymore required for the Windows 10 certification program. That point was one of the argument that we exposed in the complain. Is very sad to see that the circle is closing as we predicted in the complain, and with this new Signature Edition thing a new movement in this direction. And so far, the European Commission is not doing anything in that regard, and less and less hackers, lawyers, and groups are fighting against this kind of movement. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_microsoft_signature_pc_program_now/d7vs4qc https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_micro...
amluto 10y ago
Do you happen to know what RAID mode does exactly? I will gladly write the Linux NVMe support for it if it's reasonably straightforward, but I couldn't get my XPS 13 to boot anything at all in RAID mode so I'm a bit stuck. P.S. that missing NVMe power saving piece is now implemented for Linux and will hopefully be queued for Linux 4.9 :)

by mjg59 10y ago

sounds 10y ago

It's not horribly misleading, Matt. If you view it from the perspective of the average Linux user, I think you'd agree that: 1. Lenovo is usually one of the first choices for a Linux laptop. 2. Lenovo obviously has made the call here to ignore the Linux community on their forums. 3. Lenovo has actually stated "This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft." -- whatever that means. 4. Win10 dropped the requirement that Secure Boot can be disabled. This has already been filed as a complaint to the EC: I remember when in 2012 secure boot was announced for the new Windows 8. I am from Spain, and at that time a lawyer (Jose Maria Lancho[1]) that was the president of a Spanish LUG (Hispalinux) create a official complain to the European Commission about the Windows 8 certification program in relation with the requirements of Secure Boot. At that time the certification program describe that one of the requirement was to have an option to disable SB via UEFI, but only for desktops and laptops, but not for tables. Now this option is not anymore required for the Windows 10 certification program. That point was one of the argument that we exposed in the complain. Is very sad to see that the circle is closing as we predicted in the complain, and with this new Signature Edition thing a new movement in this direction. And so far, the European Commission is not doing anything in that regard, and less and less hackers, lawyers, and groups are fighting against this kind of movement. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_microsoft_signature_pc_program_now/d7vs4qc https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_micro...

amluto 10y ago

Do you happen to know what RAID mode does exactly? I will gladly write the Linux NVMe support for it if it's reasonably straightforward, but I couldn't get my XPS 13 to boot anything at all in RAID mode so I'm a bit stuck. P.S. that missing NVMe power saving piece is now implemented for Linux and will hopefully be queued for Linux 4.9 :)