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| author | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2025-02-03 16:33:25 -0500 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2025-02-03 16:43:52 -0500 |
| commit | 1b1507afa939d6063e0ecd211d12af411669c5fe (patch) | |
| tree | 5325913e0ca727f282d74fec323e3e7237f6dd40 | |
| parent | f0c8ea7be85bc1e73b3b836e260437301d355766 (diff) | |
| download | guix-1b1507afa939d6063e0ecd211d12af411669c5fe.tar.gz guix-1b1507afa939d6063e0ecd211d12af411669c5fe.zip | |
news: Add entry about disable the kernel's EFI pstore backend.
* etc/news.scm: Add entry.
Change-Id: I2ea14a87abfed7157d74913c7e918c289cf6b9af
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/news.scm | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/etc/news.scm b/etc/news.scm index c65d598802..dfc64d59cd 100644 --- a/etc/news.scm +++ b/etc/news.scm @@ -35,6 +35,17 @@ (channel-news (version 0) + (entry (commit "616ae36e0f557cecb4abe58c5b0973b9428d25e0") + (title + (en "Kernel persistent storage in UEFI disabled")) + (body + (en "The linux-libre kernel's persistent storage (pstore) mechanism +can use UEFI non-volative memory to store information that would otherwise be +lost, such as kernel panic logs. However, this can permanently fill the +non-volatile memory on some hardware implementations, breaking the ability to +reconfigure Guix System. Therefore, this mechanism has been disabled by default +in the build-time kernel configuration. Users can re-enable it if desired."))) + (entry (commit "f40eff02413c20cdb6200d90cbb7f674cea475fd") (title (en "Linux-libre 6.13 now available")) |