ASUS Laptop noticed message in boot up Solus 4.4 from ASUS GL702VSK laptop?

ReillyBrogan

These are errors for hardware and firmware issues that the kernel is working around. Almost all Solus installs have a few messages like this. You are welcome to open kernel bugs for these, but I'm not going to put any time into investigating this when you haven't demonstrated an actual issue that you are experiencing that could be related to these.

Maximalprime2

ReillyBrogan

Where do you go to open kernel bugs? I am not sure of that location or website, thanks, the only bug I am worried about is the ones seen on my laptop, the desktop bug, might only be in solus I am not sure, I am downloading opensuse live images right now to see if they exist also on their live ISO images? it take me some time to download then use rufus and boot them up, thanks for reply. I think I need to use bug reports, it doesn't seem to do much good posting about them in forums. that might of not been the correct area to use for bug reports, yestorday for whatever reason I was thinking it was, but this I recalled where was some stuff like github that has bug reports system, its not always easy to fingure out the correct webpage to do this on, on different linux distro's.

ReillyBrogan

See my other response here

Maximalprime2

ReillyBrogan

yes, seen it, does solus have a reddit page for reporting bugs, or another website, anyway I look into it next time, I going to download opensuse tumbleweed and look into its kernel to see if I see the same messages form dmesg --kern on it too, I may also do the some thing with debian and ubuntu and collect the error I find, yes, they don't seem to effect using the linux distro but that SGX disabled by bios I have no idea what that even is since the laptop came with windows 10, and doesn't like windows 11 because of its processor is not offically supported on windows 11 because of the hardware in windows from this Bestbuy laptop my parents got me, right before windows 11 came out.

Maximalprime2

brent
yes, I seen that I deleted by suse forums account, next time I find something like this I going to reddit to post about it, where they have no control over my post, not that I could delete someone yelling at me about a bug I found in the Linux kernel, I tried to tell them it's on more than one Linux distro, but I guess they don't like to hear that, I wish I could of block that person but I think it was a admin user on their forums.

ReillyBrogan

To be totally honest with you I think you're wasting your time on this. I understand that the errors looks scary (after all they're highlighted in red!) but they are completely harmless so long as they are not interfering with the function of your system.

Maximalprime2

ReillyBrogan

data leak possible on CPU is harmless in red text? also it provides links, to more information which I have no idea even what to do with that infomation or how to take it.

also what about this text seen on my Intel i9 12900k processor, I have this pc running windows 11 at this time, but is this message below really harmless? I never even seen any Spectre type text in windows 11 so I don't even know if that detected by mistake on booting up solus 4.4 gnome live ISO on that newer desktop.
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_installation

I am downloading live CD images from this page for tumbleweed to see if the dmesg --kern is also in that build of Linux too, just in case some of these are only solus specific.
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-GNOME-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20230801.iso is what I plan on testing out next, again if the red text is normal that is fine, but I don't think all Linux distro share all the same messages on them.

Warning: unprivileged eBPF is enabled with eIBRS on, data leaks possible vis spectre v2 BHB attacks -- is this really harmless and doesn't affect Linux in any way? again I am waiting for a few more newer Linux distro are even released before I even think about installing or dual booting Linux on my newer hardware at home.

ReillyBrogan

Maximalprime2 If you don't even know what SGX is why then do you care whether it's enabled or not? Also, can you please separate your posts into sentences and paragraphs it's incredibly difficult to understand you.

Maximalprime2

ReillyBrogan

ReillyBrogan
31 minutes ago
Maximalprime2 If you don't even know what SGX is why then do you care whether it's enabled or not? Also, can you please separate your posts into sentences and paragraphs it's incredibly difficult to understand you.

it might effect the laptop's quality of use on linux, since its not a setting that I can even enabled or turn on, was off by default by ASUS Replublic of Gamer laptop, again I went with linux with the laptop, since windows 11 can be installed but its not supported by this model of laptop, the hardware doesn't like windows 11, I would either have to keep using windows 10 on it, or switch to linux to play my pc games on it, in any case I felt like I needed to reply to this question, but this is the last reply I am going to do today on this subject. I don't know if it matters if its disabled, silent also on solus doesn't hide this text is seen on bootup of solus , some of these red text messages are display even when the bootup is sent to silent. or has a splash screen these text are also display on the kernel startup before the other linux distro's show their splash screens, only some of these red text can even be hidden on startup of linux, I hope that makes it more clear.

ReillyBrogan

Maximalprime2 data leak possible on CPU is harmless in red text? also it provides links, to more information which I have no idea even what to do with that infomation or how to take it.

All of the errors that are reported are EASILY googleable. As I've previously stated, none of these are Solus specific issues and I will not be providing hand holding to walk you through what each message means.

Maximalprime2 Warning: unprivileged eBPF is enabled with eIBRS on, data leaks possible vis spectre v2 BHB attacks

This is really the only legitimate warning you've screenshotted. It's harmless as no Spectre v2 attacks have ever been demonstrated in the wild, but you are welcome to disable unprivileged BPF as you likely have no use for it. You can use the sysctl kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=2 to disable it.

Maximalprime2

brent

Just wanted to let you know that,

they also went and hide my posts there they set them to unlisted, so whoever did yell at me about posting about bugs in their kernel must of been very mad or that is normal admin behavior to hide posts from American's, since if I recall suse is a German released Linux distro if I recall I heard that correctly on distrowatch website as in outside of the united states linux project, but that might of had nothing to do with it, it might just be normal behavior. I might just be seeing a thing that not really there, in any case, I deleted my opensuse account, if I want to I just create a new one later on if I feel the need to, I also like Fedora 38 silverblue and its kinote thing, but when I tried updating that silverblue on my laptop it was taking forever with the terminal command, I don't know I had used the info from RPMFusion on nvidia for silverblue, I had it all working, but it was taking forever to update it, otherwise I do prefer fedora over opensuse in any case. what I like about opensuse was it had better working support in MicroOS for flatpak and flathub, otherwise yes I would prefer fedora over it if not for that one thing. firefox is not updatable in fedora compared to opensuse. but that's the only difference for me between the two of them.

brent

Maximalprime2 affirmative, it very much appears that they did not appreciate your news and pictures that you brought to their doorstep, that is for sure🙂.

PS--In Solus (Brogan's message to you) I trust. It's just chirpy firmware.

PSS--It's funny you should you trust Fedora over Suse. I tried Open and Gecko knockoffs for fun the last 2 nights. While the second one is lovely I like Fedora packaging....BTW....reading your last few sentences...SilverBlue is immutable....there are no more conventional updates as you know them and that's why you wouldn't update, at least that's how I understand it...

Maximalprime2

ReillyBrogan

This is really the only legitimate warning you've screenshotted. It's harmless as no Spectre v2 attacks have ever been demonstrated in the wild, but you are welcome to disable unprivileged BPF as you likely have no use for it. You can use the sysctl kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=2 to disable it.

I have no idea even what that is on my newer desktop with the Intel i9 processor , I can't do that command since I was running it on live ISO mode on USB drive, and not installing it to that pc I might wait a year or two like when that hardware is less new to before I install linux to one of my other 1TB drives in it, plus I don't know has well nvidia rtx 3070 handles linux, also it has an built in Intel 3D card on the z690 gigabyte motherboard, unlike my older desktop which I do have linux on the only display on that gigabyte is from the nvidia card, since my older desktop does not have an Intel 3D card on its motherboard.

I think sysctl kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=2 is requires it to be running from the hardware to take effect on a reboot correct? this is the last thing really I ask about today since I want to go offline to watch tv.

ermo

Maximalprime2 it might effect the laptop's quality of use on linux

You're being a support vampire. Please stop.