Kernel: Firmware Bug

Hello,

I have some errors when booting Manjaro XFCE.The message appears at boot.
I believe they are Kernel related:

[jesuslinux@A4910MJ ~]$ journalctl -b -p err
jan 11 20:46:02 A4910MJ kernel: [Firmware Bug]: CPU   0: APIC ID mismatch. CPUID: 0x0000 APIC: 0x0010
jan 11 20:46:02 A4910MJ kernel: [Firmware Bug]: CPU   1: APIC ID mismatch. CPUID: 0x0001 APIC: 0x0011
jan 11 20:46:05 A4910MJ kernel: sp5100-tco sp5100-tco: Watchdog hardware is disabled

Any guidance on this?I have other error but are not Kernel related:

jan 11 20:46:07 A4910MJ bluetoothd[516]: Failed to set mode: Failed (0x03)
jan 11 20:46:15 A4910MJ wpa_supplicant[607]: bgscan simple: Failed to enable signal strength monitoring
jan 11 20:46:18 A4910MJ lightdm[729]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file

Thanks

[jesuslinux@A4910MJ ~]$ inxi -Fazy
System:
  Kernel: 6.12.63-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12-x86_64 root=/dev/sda4
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.51 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0
    with: xfce4-panel tools: xfce4-screensaver vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
    Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Notebook v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 81FB v: 80.21 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: X0K19EA#AB9 uuid: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI
    vendor: American Megatrends v: F.32 date: 04/26/2019
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 26.4 Wh (100%) condition: 26.4/26.4 Wh (100%) volts: 8.54
    min: 7.7 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: N/A charging:
    status: full cycles: 237
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD A9-9410 RADEON R5 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Excavator level: v3 note: check built: 2015 process: GF 28nm
    family: 0x15 (21) model-id: 0x70 (112) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x6006705
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache:
    L1: 192 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 2x1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1396 min/max: 1400/2900 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1396 2: 1396
    bogomips: 11582
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3
    svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT disabled
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; STIBP:
    disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsa status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
  Type: vmscape status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5
    Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-3
    code: Volcanic Islands process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:98e4
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Sunplus Innovation HP Wide Vision HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-1.3:4
    chip-ID: 1bcf:2c87 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0 driver:
    X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x15c6 built: 2013 res:
    mode: 1366x768 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 101 gamma: 1.2
    size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1366x768 min: 640x480
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.3.2-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (radeonsi stoney ACO DRM
    3.61 6.12.63-1-MANJARO) device-ID: 1002:98e4 memory: 500 MiB unified: no
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo de: xfce4-display-settings
    x11: xprop,xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Stoney HDMI/DP Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1
    chip-ID: 1002:15b3 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 15h Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:09.2
    chip-ID: 1022:157a class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.63-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8723be v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b723
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-1.4:5 chip-ID: 0bda:b008
    class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 42.14 GiB (17.7%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SKC600256G
    size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0107 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 40 GiB size: 39.08 GiB (97.69%) used: 13.17 GiB (33.7%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4
  ID-2: /home raw-size: 74.95 GiB size: 73.22 GiB (97.69%)
    used: 5.54 GiB (7.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 69.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 69.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 7.21 GiB used: 2.41 GiB (33.3%)
  Processes: 230 Power: uptime: 31m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 2.87 GiB services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager
    Init: systemd v: 258 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Packages: 1221 pm: pacman pkgs: 1207 libs: 361 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
    pkgs: 14 Compilers: gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.9
    running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.40

Do you have some actual problem or do you just want to know what those mean?
Google the firmware ones (because i do not know them), all the others are not important and can be ignored.

Just wanted to know if it’s something to worry about.
My searches online did not clarify anything…

Probably nothing to worry about. Many chunks of firmware are proprietary so chances are, as long as the OEMs does not open their code or at least publish all the interfaces (and that is not gonna happen), linux kernel will always throw a warning or error here and there but still run.

All the others are well known and nonimportant. Actually the bluetooth and wpa are also firmware related… the watchdog and pam are a matter of configuration.

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Linux kernel logs everything.

Linux kernel tries everything and logs if it fails, usually nothing to worry about.

Is there a BIOS/Firmware update available for this HP laptop?

sp5100-tco: Watchdog hardware is disabled / Kernel & Hardware / Arch Linux Forums

the solution was really blacklisting it since my motherboard is not IPMI compliant.

sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/sp5100_tco.conf <<< 'blacklist sp5100_tco'
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No BIOS update taken from HP site:

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I already flagged out sp5100-tco etc in GRUB boot.