firmware-open VS ec

This reminds me a lot of FW update a8dd6c2, since rolled back, which came out about 4 months ago and caused problems with darp8 (e.g. https://github.com/system76/firmware-open/issues/469, https://www.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/1692nd2/darter_pro_fails_to_resume_after_fw_a8dd6c2/, https://www.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/168oehz/new_coreboot_update/)

I suspect that my current settings are still "overkill", so I'm wondering if there's a nice way (in the absence of https://github.com/system76/firmware-open/pull/365 being merged!) to find out what the minimum speed is I can get away with without my laptop spontaneously combusting? :D

There is an issue about this: https://github.com/system76/firmware-open/issues/407 They closed it (because there was an update), but yeah it's definitely not fixed. You can subscribe to this issue to see what's going on, but do not get your hopes high - they will rarely, if ever, update the issue.

There isn't a way without flashing the firmware at least once, but there is this PR instead which exposes userspace fan controls, which might work with some of the fan control software in Linux.

Issue opened: https://github.com/system76/firmware-open/issues/432

What Framework can't offer is Coreboot with Management Engine Cleaner and other great specs. System76 just announced a new fully open source bios for their intel 10th - 13 th gen models: https://github.com/system76/firmware-open/blob/77abfadf24c9a0c45ae042cd71d3ce7be26c846e/FEATURES.md

Hi! I check the firmware-open repository from time to time and noticed that since the initial release a few potentially interesting things have been committed (e.g. Disable ME by default on everything but TGL-U or Support for NVIDIA Dynamic Boost ). Should I wait for the "official" update to show up in firmware-manager? These changes seem to have been released quite some time ago, but there is no trace of them in the GUI. I am inclined to build and flash it myself. I've flashed my ec in the past, but I don't want to set the versions of ec and firmware-open too far apart. What's the policy here? There is this warning here about "normal" users who should not do this themselves. Perhaps I am not normal :-/

Sorry, forgot the link: https://github.com/system76/ec/blob/master/src/board/system76/oryp9/board.mk#L48-L56. There are actually two fan curves, one that responds to CPU temp and one that responds to GPU temp. By default, the two fan speeds are synced at the higher fan duty of the two curves, so in your case you probably want to lower the fan speed of both those curves initial point. I recommend you fork that repo and keep your own branch with your modifications that you can rebase after each official firmware release. You can see mine here though I've got some active firmware development on that branch, so this diff is more useful to what you're liking to be doing

You'll get the notifications and you can install them, but you'll be back to factory firmware configuration. I keep a branch on my own fork that I will pull upstream changes into after each release. https://github.com/curiousercreative/ec/pull/1/files

I similarly ran with the fan on below 65 previously, but with my usage, I found the fan speed to bounce a bit. Here's the fan curve I run currently (note, I have somewhat significantly modified fans otherwise as well): https://github.com/curiousercreative/ec/blob/galp5/src/board/system76/galp5/board.mk#L52

+1 for modifying your firmware keymap! You can see my galp5 keymap here (I'm migrating from a Macbook Pro, so most of my mods are related to that) where I have this mapping done: https://github.com/curiousercreative/ec/blob/fans/src/board/system76/galp5/keymap/apple.c