Earlier this month Framework 13 started delivery out their AMD Ryzen powered modular laptop computer. Sadly although the launch-day testing of the Framework laptop computer underneath Linux was hampered by a BIOS concern. It is taken longer, however this week a brand new BIOS is now obtainable for testing that resolves the AMD Linux graphics concern. Here is tips on how to go about simply flashing the system BIOS with Fwupd and LVFS to rise up and working nicely on Linux.
As famous within the 3 October article, AMDGPU driver points cropped up because of a system BIOS regression late within the cycle previous to launching this Ryzen 7 7840U (Zen 4) laptop computer. But it surely’s been a problem seen by the AMD Linux crew beforehand and was a matter of rolling of Framework rolling out a brand new system BIOS with the repair. That lastly occurred this week with a testing launch.
Uploaded to LVFS is the three.0.0.3.2 BIOS for the Framework Laptop computer 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 collection processors. Fortunately with Framework supporting LVFS/Fwupd, it is very straightforward to replace the system BIOS whereas Framework additionally makes obtainable a UEFI-based updating mechanism too if that’s the case desired.
First up it was a matter of booting the Ubuntu 23.10 set up with “nomodeset” to keep away from the AMDGPU kernel driver use to get to a working desktop to simply proceed with making use of the system BIOS replace. From there it was merely a matter of fwupdmgr enable-remote lvfs-testing to have the ability to entry the LVFS picture in testing.
After which from there the standard sudo fwupdmgr replace to start updating the brand new system BIOS…
Simple as that because of the great Fwupd/LVFS.
After the system BIOS replace, Ubuntu 23.10 with Linux 6.5 booted proper on as much as the GNOME Wayland session and with none AMDGPU errors.
Now onto some Framework 13 AMD laptop computer Linux benchmarking.
