Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop

Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by leereeves on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @05:19PM (#12552344)

The problem is that it's locked.

As a default it would be fine, if it could be changed without removing the BIOS chip.

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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by khedoros on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @05:39PM (#12552509)

I agree completely with that. I responded because I partially disagreed with your earlier statement; I think it misses the point.

It's a locked UEFI setting causing a problem: true. The setting is causing a piece of hardware to behave in a mode not handled by the current Linux driver: also true. So there are two ways of looking at it.

First: It's a software issue that Lenovo should clear up (i.e. remove the locks on the appropriate parts of the UEFI configuration)

Second: It's a hardware issue that the Linux community can address by writing a driver for the alternate hardware mode.

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