Re: Acer Aspire 5 A517-52G - No firmware ACIP and no boot

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 02.08.2022 16:06, Bruno wrote:
> I would like to report no compatible firmware for a new laptop Acer Aspire 5 A517-52G.
> 
> The firmware problem I witness is ACIP errors. Xen does not boot.
> 
> These ACIP errors lead to boot into initramfs without mounting storage capabilities.
> 
> There is extensive logs, dmesg and attempts I recently send to Xen-Users and got a lot of help and feedback there on a long thread of attempts, but we have hit a lack of support at this point.
> 
> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-users/2022-07/msg00061.html

Can you please post relevant logs (and other information that may have been
worked out already) here, rather than having everyone who reads this dig
through a pretty long thread? Looking at the first few mails there I can
spot a kernel log, but since you're complaining about Xen boot, I'm missing
the hypervisor log. Or are you talking about Linux not booting when run
under Xen on that machine?

I do see a fair number of ACPI errors in the kernel log - it would then be
helpful to have two logs for comparison, one when the kernel is booted
natively and one when booted under Xen.

Looking at the tail of that log I see an issue with sof-audio-pci, but I
can't seem to be able to associate this with "does not boot". I guess
information about this _might_ be found in the long xen-users thread, but
as said above - please extract relevant information and put it on this
list rather than having everyone go search.

Regards, Jan