Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model helped a Linux user sort out a situation where his laptop was taking around 36 seconds to boot the kernel, which shouldn't be the case for the high-end laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 processor and 32GB of RAM. It ended up being yet another case of device firmware issues, but now a Linux kernel patch is pending for working around the issue on the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614 laptop while discussions are ongoing in getting the vendor to provide a proper firmware fix.

A long boot delay was being encountered on the modern ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614 laptop. 30+ second boot times shouldn't really happen with any modern Intel or AMD laptop. According to the AI-assisted kernel mailing list post, the slow boot was attributed to the ASUS firmware leaving one of the touchpad's GPIO lines asserted at boot time and that ended up causing a nasty boot time. Marco Scardovi who encountered this issue with his laptop explained:

"On these laptops, the firmware leaves the touchpad's ActiveBoth GPIO line asserted (logic low) at boot. Per the boot-time initial-state logic, an ActiveBoth interrupt found low is replayed once to sync its initial state, which calls the handler synchronously in the probe path. On these laptops that interrupt handler is slow/hanging, so the synchronous call blocks for ~36s and stalls boot."

Now with the help of Gemini 3.5 Flash, there is a DMI quirk patch pending to workaround this quirky firmware behavior on the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614 laptop to avoid the lengthy boot times. With the patch, the Linux kernel boot times dropped as should be the case for an AMD Ryzen 9 laptop.

In the mailing list code review on the patch, it looks like the AI turned out to be slightly wrong on the underlying cause. Rather than being touchpad-related, from an ACPI dump it appears related to the graphics triggering the GPIO issue. In any event the discussion is ongoing on getting ASUS/AMD to work on a proper firmware fix while this kernel patch will still likely be upstreamed for those without an updated BIOS.