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 One page of where each layer stands, with the evidence. Update it when something changes; details live in
 [XART-GUARD.md](XART-GUARD.md) and [UPSTREAM-MAP.md](UPSTREAM-MAP.md).
 
+## Update 2026-10-29: wip5
+
+On `7.2.11-elementary-aurora72-wip5` (guard 1) the enclave matches the enrolled finger (fprintd: `#0: right-index-finger`), but
+the host refuses the kind-4 rewrite after the match, so `fprintd-verify` fails every time. The owner chose to test the guard off
+with a backup first: [../aurora/unified72/wip5/README.md](../aurora/unified72/wip5/README.md) (xART backup + separate
+`elementary-aurora72-wip5-xartguard-off-trial` entry; then check macOS Touch ID). Results go there and here.
+
 ## Machine
 
 MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro, 2021), `apple,j314s` / `apple,t6000`, `asahi,os-fw-version` 13.5,
 
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+# Aurora 7.2 wip5 on the J314S (M1 Pro 14"): install record, 2026-10-29
+
+This page lets the laptop be rebuilt without this session's notes. wip5 is unified72 revision 7: omacom/linux-aurora
+`2f725546` (7.2.11) with patches 0001–0005 (PR #698), built in CI run 40866985442. The package is
+`linux-image-elementary-aurora72-wip5_7.2.11+elementary.aurora72.wip5-1_arm64.deb`, sha256 `658746f5…ace62` (CI `SHA256SUMS`).
+
+## Result
+
+- **Boots** (first good boot 2026-10-29 10:58 EDT). Working: internal panel, external DP monitor, GPU (asahi), Wi-Fi, the six
+  tas2764 speaker amps (they log "Failed to parse devicetree" on the first probe and bind on the retry), cs42l84, SEP driver.
+- No new kernel errors against wip4, apart from three `apple-dcp … Failed to get dp-phy: -517` probe deferrals.
+- Not yet checked by the owner: dock replug, suspend and resume.
+- wip4 stays the GRUB default. wip5 is the entry `elementary-aurora72-wip5-trial`.
+
+## How to install it (the way that works)
+
+```bash
+sudo bash mseries/aurora/unified72/wip5/stage-wip5.sh ~/.cache/mseries-kernel/wip5/linux-image-elementary-aurora72-wip5_7.2.11+elementary.aurora72.wip5-1_arm64.deb
+sudo grub-reboot elementary-aurora72-wip5-trial && sudo reboot
+```
+
+`stage-wip5.sh` installs the package, copies `vmlinuz`, and builds the initramfs by **retargeting the working wip4 one**
+with `mseries/aurora/prepare-trial-initrd.py`, then audits it with `audit-trial-initrd.py`. The audit checks that the early
+archive and every non-module entry are unchanged and that all 91 modules match the package. Last, it copies the wip4 GRUB
+entry as a TRIAL entry.
+
+**Why not mkinitramfs:** the J314S boots an Arch mkinitcpio initramfs. The kernel line carries `cryptdevice=`, and the image's
+hooks are `base asahi udev … encrypt`, with plymouth. initramfs-tools ignores `cryptdevice=`. The first wip5 staging
+used `mkinitramfs` and died before the passphrase prompt on every boot, leaving no journal. mkinitcpio itself is not
+installed on this machine, so retargeting is the only path.
+
+## Graphical unlock screen
+
+The initramfs already has plymouth with the elementary theme, and the `encrypt` hook asks through `plymouth ask-for-password`.
+The trial entries boot with `loglevel=7` and no `splash`, so the prompt is plain text with no cue. To get the graphical prompt
+on the wip5 entry only:
+
+```bash
+sudo cp /boot/grub/custom.cfg /boot/grub/custom.cfg.before-splash && sudo sed -i '/linux \/vmlinuz-aurora72-wip5 /s/loglevel=7/quiet splash loglevel=3/' /boot/grub/custom.cfg
+```
+
+## Touch ID on wip5
+
+On wip5 with the default guard (`xart_guard` 1), the enclave **matches** the enrolled finger. fprintd lists
+`#0: right-index-finger`. The host then fails the verify: the kernel logs `xART guard: refused to rewrite a kind-4 record this
+Linux install did not create`, then `post-match identity-bag snapshot failed`. That is the documented cold-boot M1 behaviour
+([../../../aurora-sep/XART-GUARD.md](../../../aurora-sep/XART-GUARD.md)). The maintainers' reference M1 Pro runs `xart_guard=0` daily.
+
+Owner decision, 2026-10-29: try it with a backup first. `touchid-guard-off.sh` does both steps:
+
+1. A byte-exact, read-only `dd` of `nvme0n1p1` (iBootSystemContainer, where xART lives), `nvme0n2` and `nvme0n3`, each
+   verified against the device. They go to `/var/lib/mseries-kernel-tests/xart-backup-<UTC>/` (root only, with `SHA256SUMS` and
+   `layout.txt`). **These images are this Mac's enclave state. Never commit them.** Keep a second copy off the machine (for
+   example a root-only directory on the SER8). Otherwise a wiped laptop loses the only way to restore them.
+2. A separate GRUB entry, `elementary-aurora72-wip5-xartguard-off-trial`, the wip5 entry plus `apple_sep.xart_guard=0`. The
+   normal wip5 entry keeps the guard on. Nothing is armed. Undo: copy `custom.cfg.before` back from the backup directory.
+
+Test order: boot the guard-off entry once, run `fprintd-verify` (enrol again only if it fails), then boot macOS and check that
+macOS Touch ID still works. Write the results here and in [TOUCH-ID-STATE.md](../../../aurora-sep/TOUCH-ID-STATE.md).
+
+**Restoring xART is a last resort.** Writing `nvme0n1p1` back with `dd` replaces the whole Apple boot container. Do it only if
+macOS Touch ID or boot breaks *and* the steps the maintainers suggest have failed. Do it from this Linux install or from
+recovery, never while macOS is running, and only with the image from the same Mac.
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Stage an Aurora 7.2 unified72 kernel (wip5 by default) on the J314S beside the working one, as a
+# non-default TRIAL GRUB entry. The persistent default and the shared boot.bin are not touched.
+#
+# The J314S boots an Arch mkinitcpio initramfs (cryptdevice= and the encrypt + plymouth hooks).
+# Never build the new initramfs with initramfs-tools/mkinitramfs: it ignores cryptdevice= and the
+# kernel dies before the passphrase prompt (wip5 first try, 2026-10-29). Instead retarget the working
+# initramfs with prepare-trial-initrd.py and audit it, which is what this script does.
+#
+#   sudo bash stage-wip5.sh /path/to/linux-image-elementary-aurora72-wip5_*.deb
+# Optional: WORKING=7.2.11-elementary-aurora72-wip4 NEW=7.2.11-elementary-aurora72-wip5 SLUG=aurora72-wip5
+set -euo pipefail
+[[ $EUID -eq 0 ]] || { echo 'run with sudo' >&2; exit 1; }
+deb=${1:?usage: stage-wip5.sh <package.deb>}
+here=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
+aurora=$(cd -- "$here/../.." && pwd)   # mseries/aurora
+WORKING=${WORKING:-7.2.11-elementary-aurora72-wip4}
+NEW=${NEW:-7.2.11-elementary-aurora72-wip5}
+SLUG=${SLUG:-aurora72-wip5}
+WORKING_SLUG=${WORKING_SLUG:-${WORKING#*elementary-}}
+cfg=/boot/grub/custom.cfg
+
+ts=$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)
+backup=/var/lib/mseries-kernel-tests/staging/$ts-$SLUG
+mkdir -p "$backup"; chmod 700 "$backup"
+cp -a "$cfg" /boot/grub/grubenv "$backup/"
+
+dpkg -i "$deb"
+depmod -a "$NEW"
+install -m 0755 "/usr/lib/modules/$NEW/vmlinuz" "/boot/vmlinuz-$SLUG"
+
+# Retarget the working Arch initramfs: same early archive, hooks and unlock userspace, new modules.
+work=$backup/initrd
+mkdir -m 700 "$work"
+python3 "$aurora/prepare-trial-initrd.py" --baseline "/boot/initrd.img-$WORKING" --module-root /usr \
+  --old-version "$WORKING" --new-version "$NEW" --output "$work/initrd.img-$NEW" --report "$work/module-preparation.json"
+python3 - "$aurora/audit-trial-initrd.py" "/boot/initrd.img-$WORKING" "$work/initrd.img-$NEW" "/usr/lib/modules/$NEW" <<'PY'
+import importlib.util, sys
+from pathlib import Path
+s = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location('audit', sys.argv[1]); a = importlib.util.module_from_spec(s); s.loader.exec_module(a)
+r = a.audit(Path(sys.argv[2]).read_bytes(), Path(sys.argv[3]).read_bytes(), Path(sys.argv[4]))
+for k in ('early_prefix_unchanged', 'nonmodule_entries_unchanged', 'module_bytes_match_candidate_tree', 'dependency_files_present'):
+    assert r[k] is True, k
+print('initramfs audit passed:', r['verified_module_count'], 'modules')
+PY
+install -m 0755 "$work/initrd.img-$NEW" "/boot/initrd.img-$NEW"
+
+if ! grep -q "elementary-$SLUG-trial" "$cfg"; then
+  python3 - "$cfg" "$WORKING_SLUG" "$SLUG" "$WORKING" "$NEW" <<'PY'
+import re, sys
+p, ws, ns, wv, nv = sys.argv[1:]
+t = open(p).read()
+m = re.search(r"menuentry '[^']*' --id elementary-" + re.escape(ws) + r"-trial \{.*?\n\}\n", t, re.S)
+assert m, 'working trial entry not found'
+e = re.sub(r"menuentry '[^']*'", f"menuentry 'elementary OS - TRIAL: Aurora 7.2 {ns.split('-')[-1]}'", m.group(0), count=1)
+e = e.replace(f"elementary-{ws}-trial", f"elementary-{ns}-trial").replace(f"/vmlinuz-{ws}", f"/vmlinuz-{ns}").replace(f"initrd.img-{wv}", f"initrd.img-{nv}")
+assert ws not in e
+open(p, 'w').write(t[:m.end()] + "\n" + e + t[m.end():])
+PY
+fi
+grub-script-check "$cfg"
+echo "Staged $NEW (backup $backup). Default unchanged. Boot it once with:"
+echo "  sudo grub-reboot elementary-$SLUG-trial && sudo reboot"
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# 1) Byte-exact, read-only backup of the Apple boot container (xART lives there) and the two small
+#    Apple NVMe namespaces. 2) Add a separate wip5 boot entry with apple_sep.xart_guard=0.
+#    The normal wip5 entry keeps the guard on; wip4 stays the default. Nothing is armed.
+# Run: sudo bash ~/.cache/mseries-kernel/wip5/touchid-guard-off.sh
+set -euo pipefail
+[[ $EUID -eq 0 ]] || { echo 'run with sudo' >&2; exit 1; }
+cfg=/boot/grub/custom.cfg
+ts=$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)
+dir=/var/lib/mseries-kernel-tests/xart-backup-$ts
+mkdir -p "$dir"; chmod 700 "$dir"
+
+# Step 1: backup. Read-only dd; abort before touching anything if any copy fails to verify.
+for dev in nvme0n1p1 nvme0n2 nvme0n3; do
+  [[ -b /dev/$dev ]] || { echo "missing /dev/$dev" >&2; exit 1; }
+  dd if=/dev/$dev of="$dir/$dev.img" bs=4M iflag=direct status=none
+  a=$(sha256sum < "$dir/$dev.img" | cut -c1-64); b=$(sha256sum < /dev/$dev | cut -c1-64)
+  [[ $a == "$b" ]] || { echo "backup of $dev does not match the device" >&2; exit 1; }
+  echo "$a  $dev.img" >> "$dir/SHA256SUMS"
+done
+lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,PARTLABEL,PARTUUID /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme0n2 /dev/nvme0n3 > "$dir/layout.txt"
+chmod 600 "$dir"/*
+echo "backup verified: $dir"; cat "$dir/SHA256SUMS"
+
+# Step 2: guard-off boot entry, copied from the wip5 trial entry.
+cp -a "$cfg" "$dir/custom.cfg.before"
+if ! grep -q 'elementary-aurora72-wip5-xartguard-off-trial' "$cfg"; then
+  python3 - "$cfg" <<'PY'
+import re, sys
+p = sys.argv[1]; t = open(p).read()
+m = re.search(r"menuentry '[^']*' --id elementary-aurora72-wip5-trial \{.*?\n\}\n", t, re.S)
+assert m, 'wip5 trial entry not found'
+e = m.group(0)
+e = re.sub(r"menuentry '[^']*'", "menuentry 'elementary OS - TRIAL: Aurora 7.2 wip5, Touch ID (xART guard off)'", e, count=1)
+e = e.replace("--id elementary-aurora72-wip5-trial", "--id elementary-aurora72-wip5-xartguard-off-trial")
+e, n = re.subn(r"(\n\s*linux /vmlinuz-aurora72-wip5 [^\n]*)", r"\1 apple_sep.xart_guard=0", e, count=1)
+assert n == 1
+open(p, 'w').write(t[:m.end()] + "\n" + e + t[m.end():])
+PY
+fi
+grub-script-check "$cfg"
+echo
+echo "Done. To boot the Touch ID entry once:"
+echo "  sudo grub-reboot elementary-aurora72-wip5-xartguard-off-trial && sudo reboot"
+echo "To undo the entry: sudo cp $dir/custom.cfg.before $cfg"