A user with an ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614 laptop experienced ~36-second Linux kernel boot times caused by the firmware leaving the touchpad's ActiveBoth GPIO line asserted at boot, which triggered a slow interrupt handler in the probe path. Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash (via the Google Antigravity AI-assisted kernel mailing list tool) helped identify the issue and draft a DMI quirk patch. However, code review revealed the AI's diagnosis was slightly off — the root cause appears to be graphics-related rather than touchpad-related per an ACPI dump. The patch is still expected to be upstreamed as a workaround while a proper firmware fix from ASUS/AMD is pursued.
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