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November 12th, 2020 23:00

Dell XPS 13 (9010) with Arch Linux / Error Bios bug

Hi,

I recently encountered an error with my new machine which is running with Arch Linux. It started after a reboot with a glitched display right after grub bootloader.

I haven't solved the error yet, but what it shows in my journal is some Error message with the BIOS.

 

Nov 12 18:58:08 arch-digit-mobile kernel: DMAR: [Firmware Bug]: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address 0!
BIOS vendor: Dell Inc.; Ver: 1.1.1; Product Version: 

 

 I don't know if this is the right place to address those occurrences. 

 

Regards

 

EDIT:

Just found a fatal error with an additional reference to the firmware.

Nov 12 18:58:08 arch-digit-mobile kernel: BERT: Error records from previous boot:
Nov 12 18:58:08 arch-digit-mobile kernel: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal
Nov 12 18:58:08 arch-digit-mobile kernel: [Hardware Error]:  Error 0, type: fatal
Nov 12 18:58:08 arch-digit-mobile kernel: [Hardware Error]:   section_type: Firmware Error Record Reference
Nov 12 18:58:08 arch-digit-mobile kernel: [Hardware Error]:   Firmware Error Record Type: SOC Firmware Error Record Type2
Nov 12 18:58:08 arch-digit-mobile kernel: [Hardware Error]:   Revision: 2
Nov 12 18:58:08 arch-digit-mobile kernel: [Hardware Error]:   Record Identifier: 8f87f311-c998-4d9e-a0c4-6065518c4f6d

 

November 12th, 2020 23:00

I think this error is related to the intel-microcode.

 

https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/issues/44 

November 14th, 2020 04:00

At least I could solve the glitch by downgrading the intel-ucode package to 20200616 

 sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/intel-ucode-20200616-1-any.pkg.tar.zst 

 

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November 19th, 2020 11:00

Just wanted to mention I'm also running into this on NixOS on my XPS 13 9310. Thanks so much for linking this issue - looks like the bug is at least related to Intel microcode. I've opened up an issue at the NixOS repo too, hoping to work out how to reliably revert the version there:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/104301

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