3mdeb/Dasharo has discontinued Heads on MSI desktops, time to upstream? #1960

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1. miczyg1 commented on Apr 22, 2025

   

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   Could development/updates be handled upstream from now on?

   That would be ideal. But somebody would have to take this effort.

   @tlaurion already tried very hard to coordinate it and nobody at 3mdeb has any spare resources to do it.

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2. Hexdigest123 commented on Aug 14, 2025

   

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   Could development/updates be handled upstream from now on?

   That would be ideal. But somebody would have to take this effort.

   @tlaurion already tried very hard to coordinate it and nobody at 3mdeb has any spare resources to do it.

   What would need to be done to make this possible?
3. miczyg1 commented on Aug 20, 2025

   

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   What would need to be done to make this possible?

   1. Take all the Dasharo modifications and rebase them on linuxboot/heads master.
   2. Check if all modifications are still needed for the MSI to work correctly. Drop the obsolete ones.
   3. Test and verify if everything works.
   4. Get the changes merged to linuxboot/heads

   tl;dr

   Time is needed and some familiarity with heads. Anybody is free to take those changes and try to get the MSI desktops on linuxboot/heads
4. tlaurion commented on Aug 20, 2025

   

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   @Tonux599 attempted port recently (he uses his fork meanwhile) #1962 (comment)

   This is stalled until the stability issue #1962 (comment) is resolved.

   Until then the following is what I'm using on my Z790-P (DDR5) board. It uses Dasharo's v0.9.2 release.

   https://github.com/Tonux599/heads/tree/my-custom-msi_z790p_ddr5

   For reference, stability issue is

   @miczyg1 I'm getting frequent kernel panics (in heads only, not when booted to Qubes) like:

   mce: CPUs not responding to MCE broadcast (may include false positives): 2-3
   Kernel panic - not syncing: Timeout: Not all CPUs entered broadcast exception handler
   

   Looking around about MCE's, I came across your issue below, do you think they are related? https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/coreboot@coreboot.org/thread/MW44TIEMFMVDWPVCAFPE2QUFXXGZYYAX/

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5. Tonux599 commented on Aug 20, 2025

   

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   My fork is working flawlessly for my use case but has become tainted by things I specifically need (disabled onboard vga, disabled hyperthreading, loading gpu blobs, forcing XMP).

   There's some small annoyances too, like flashtools cbfs needing a workaround which is slow. If this was fixed that would be nice.

   I could probably get a working PR done quite quickly that is on par with Dasharo's release, as basically all the work is done.

   @tlaurion i could do a msi_z790p_ddr5 and a UNTESTED_msi_z690a_ddr4, UNTESTED_msi_z690a_ddr5, and UNTESTED_msi_z790p_ddr4?

   Also would need to split off Dasharo's MSI releases in the coreboot module, prefer not to use main/master. Can't remember if I did this already.

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6. miczyg1 commented on Aug 26, 2025

   

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   @Tonux599 attempted port recently (he uses his fork meanwhile) #1962 (comment)

   This is stalled until the stability issue #1962 (comment) is resolved.
   Until then the following is what I'm using on my Z790-P (DDR5) board. It uses Dasharo's v0.9.2 release.
   https://github.com/Tonux599/heads/tree/my-custom-msi_z790p_ddr5

   For reference, stability issue is

   @miczyg1 I'm getting frequent kernel panics (in heads only, not when booted to Qubes) like:

   mce: CPUs not responding to MCE broadcast (may include false positives): 2-3
   Kernel panic - not syncing: Timeout: Not all CPUs entered broadcast exception handler
   

   Looking around about MCE's, I came across your issue below, do you think they are related? https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/coreboot@coreboot.org/thread/MW44TIEMFMVDWPVCAFPE2QUFXXGZYYAX/

   @Tonux599 @miczyg1 status update?

   None at this point. For some reason it doesn't trigger on our releases.
7. Tonux599 commented on Aug 26, 2025

   

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   None at this point. For some reason it doesn't trigger on our releases.

   For the avoidance of doubt, the stability issue was only present using Linux + coreboot 25.03. Linux + Dasharo (latest MSI release) is fine.

   I'll have a PR open for these boards by the weekend.

   @mblanqui @Hexdigest123 can you state which varient you are using? I can then add you to the testers list in the PR. Thanks.

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8. Tonux599 commented on Aug 27, 2025

   

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   PR open #1995

   Draft at the moment. Testing my board on Thursday 28th.
9. tlaurion commented on Mar 5, 2026

   

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   Done under #1371 #1489 #1962 and finally merged under #1995.
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    closed this as completedon Mar 5, 2026