T14/P14s gen 2 AMD fails with "unsupported" capsule error

[mvdan]

1.11 was released on the 11th of October: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/gb/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-p-series-laptops/thinkpad-p14s-gen-2-type-21a0-21a1/21a0/21a0cto1ww/downloads/driver-list/component?name=BIOS%2FUEFI

LVFS only has 1.09 from early September: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/com.lenovo.ThinkPadR1MET.firmware

It's possible and likely that other bits of firmware for this line of machines is also out of date; I haven't checked.

I couldn't find a thread for the gen2 AMD variants of these machines, so I think a new one is reasonable. I'll update this thread if fwupdmgr ever tells me there's an upgrade available.

[tpopela]

For Fedora users that have some firmware update pending - here is a shim update that "should" fix the problems - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-98830efc68

[mvdan]

It flashed for just a few frames, but I was able to capture it:

WARNING: Could not query capsule capabilities: Unsupported WARNING: Could not apply capsules: Unsupported

I finally found what was causing this: my fat32 boot partition was missing the boot and esp flags, so somehow that was confusing either fwupd or the BIOS. The firmware updates were put in (presumably) the right place, and the update was attempted, but it failed. Fixing this quirk now makes all my updates suddenly work :)

Hopefully this helps someone else in the future. I honestly don't recall why those flags weren't set up when I installed Arch years and years ago. It was the first time I installed with UEFI, so I probably did something slightly wrong.

[hughsie]

my fat32 boot partition was missing the boot and esp flags

If you try fwupd 1.9.3 it'll warn you about that now.

[mvdan]

I wanted to circle back to say thanks again - all Thinkpad BIOS updates have gone just fine in the past year :)