Not even sure why minor version is zero-padded 2-digit to begin with…otherwise, we could go for 3.100 and beyond.
@junaruga bios version naming has to follow the SMBIOS bios information spec. Which allows for a major/minor release version of one byte each. We don’t want to break any standards with other versioning schemas. Systems like LVFS use this to determine what version the bios is using, and if it can be updated or now.
See page 31 of.
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So we could go up to 255 then, if needed.
What does the major version of 3 signify though? e.g. Why didn’t we start with 1?
Just tried it. Works and is very cool. Thanks for letting me know.
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Successful update from 3.07 to 3.09 using fwupdmgr on EndeavourOS (arch) based. Machine ran VERY hot during the update itself. It was hot enough as to be uncomfortable to hold from underneath, and so I pointed the desk fan directly into the underside intake ports. This is probably something that should be addressed for future BIOS releases.
As expected, rEFInd bootloader was not available in BIOS boot order selections directly after the update. Using F3 key on a subsequent boot, I was able to navigate to and boot from my refind_x86.efi on my boot partition. Reran refind-install binary and everything was back to normal. The NVRAM erasure thing is an annoyance that I would also like to see addressed, but not a critical show stopper if you are prepared for it.
Secure boot, disk encryption, etc are not in use so nothing to report there.
Just realised this:
Windows → No instruction
Linux → Lengthy detailed instruction
I’m not sure which needs more work.
Yeah, last night I tried waiting a few minutes before putting it on the charger, and that didn’t help.
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Unfortunately I can confirm what @anon81945988 and @tim300 are reporting.
If I shutdown my i5 11th gen with 3.09 BIOS:
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While charging, it continues charging after shutdown (slightly fewer amps but still north of 40W drawn from USB-PD source), but
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With charging not in use at time of shutdown or interrupted after shutdown, normal speed charging will not resume at any point in time when re-inserted, on either side of the laptop
While “not charging”, the orange indicator light does light. However, my USB power meter says either 12V or 20V, but only .02 to .06A (approximately 1W) is drawn from known good USB-PD sources while the laptop is fully shutdown and charging was ever interrupted for ~4 sec or more.
UPDATE: the 1W does end up going into the battery. So it does charge while shutdown, just at 1/40th the speed of normal. Ugh.
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I agree that the content can be improved.
As someone who was not familiar with what “EFI Shell” or “LVFS update” meant it took me a minute to understand that the Linux section describes two different ways of getting the update… and not one very long single procedure.
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Not sure if this is BIOS 3.09 related, but I noticed something strange with the power button LED today. I had left the laptop plugged in overnight in sleep mode with the lid closed, and when I opened it today, the power button LED was blinking as if the laptop were still in sleep mode. Everything worked completely normally, but even putting the laptop to sleep and resuming again didn’t change this. The LED only went back to normal after a full reboot, and I haven’t been able to reproduce this behavior since. This is not really an issue since the effect was purely cosmetic, but I thought I should mention it in case anyone else has this or it’s a regression with 3.09.
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it’s a BIOS update, it’s linux, and we’re talking about a one-year-old product. LVFS has been introduced and it’ll probably be stable soon and it will be “the recommended way”
Today it failed to charge while powered on with the lid closed in s2idle. It was around 60% when I put it on the charger, and 56% with the solid orange LED when I opened it up two hours later. I don’t know what to make of that.
My average power use has dropped by about 2W since I updated from 3.07 to 3.09. I have no idea why, but I’m not complaining. No issues with charging, though I usually hybrid-sleep, so haven’t tried charging the the laptop powered off.
Running Manjaro Linux with kernel 5.15.53 on an 11th Gen Batch 5.
This is ongoing. Now with the lid open, I’m seeing the system repeatedly switch back and forth between charging and discharging, stuck around 53%. Is this a coincidental hardware failure, or 3.09?
What if you rollback to 3.07? …assuming all your MOSFETs are doing OK…
i updated it from windows
before that i had 3.07
i haven’t see much difference only the problem with charging when it is off
I’m not seeing a failure to charge during sleep or during fully powered up operation on 3.09 on my i5 11th gen. Very strange.
So I’ve rolled back all the way to 3.06, because that’s what LVFS offered me, and it seems to be behaving well again.
@Kieran_Levin I’m afraid there might be more going on with this bug than what you’ve documented, because the “wait 2 minutes” did nothing for me either.
Yes, this problem (not charging while powered on) only showed up today after using 3.09 for a week.
That’s good…at least you know it’s not the hardware.
BIOS 3.09 still requires 12+seconds to hard restart the machine? I thought @nrp talked about reducing that?
I timed it again, the 8 seconds is more correct. No idea if it changed or I just timed it badly before.