Re: Dell BIOS issue reading Disk Extended data

[Guilherme Piccoli]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:41 PM Limonciello, Mario
<Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> 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