From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Re: Call for testing Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:22:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87oaa2sw6k.fsf@gnu.org> <20160328080246.GA26676@jasmine> <8737r9mnji.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1alED2-00032t-8P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 07:22:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1alECy-0005rv-Ep for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 07:22:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8737r9mnji.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hullo Ludo', On 29/03/2016, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: >> I spent most of my time so far reverse-engineering my machine's >> firmware to re-enable the well-hidden CPU virtualisation support >> required to even build the installer. > > Uh. What machine is this? (So we don=E2=80=99t buy the same=E2=80=A6 ;-= )) Unlikely. It's a donated Acer Aspire V5-121 from 2013 which, perhaps due to it being Swiss, has weird UEFI firmware that's different from what it should be according to, well, everybody. Kind regards, T G-R