With update to kernel 6.18.8 comes amdxdna error

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Updatet Thinkpad with AMD CPU (Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 w/ Radeon 860M) to latest kernel. Got errors during boot:

dmesg | grep amdx
[    1.288838] [    T509] amdxdna 0000:c5:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    1.342341] [    T509] amdxdna 0000:c5:00.1: [drm] *ERROR* aie2_check_protocol: Incompatible firmware protocol major 7 minor 2
[    1.342404] [    T509] amdxdna 0000:c5:00.1: [drm] *ERROR* aie2_hw_start: firmware is not alive
[    1.422300] [    T509] amdxdna 0000:c5:00.1: [drm] *ERROR* aie2_smu_exec: smu cmd 4 failed, 0xff
[    1.422321] [    T509] amdxdna 0000:c5:00.1: [drm] *ERROR* aie2_smu_fini: Power off failed, ret -22
[    1.422330] [    T509] amdxdna 0000:c5:00.1: [drm] *ERROR* aie2_init: start npu failed, ret -22
[    1.422452] [    T509] amdxdna 0000:c5:00.1: [drm] *ERROR* amdxdna_probe: Hardware init failed, ret -22
[    1.422464] [    T509] amdxdna 0000:c5:00.1: probe with driver amdxdna failed with error -22

I’ve no idea where to post a bug report. Can somebody give me a hint how to proceed?

uname -a
Linux X-eins 6.18.8-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 30 12:17:19 UTC 2026 (0df318e) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks!

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That the new npu driver I think.
I would start at https://bugzilla.suse.com/index.cgi if it needs to go upstream they will tell you

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Problems with firmware.

Upgrade kernel and firmware for AMD XDNA.

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Meanwhile TW is on 6.18.9 …

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