Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG
Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG
Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all
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I always just kill my TPM chip. It's so obvious tpm will be used in the future for application offline DRM. They will executed encrypted operations under the TPM veil and decompilers will become unusable.
94 7 ReplyHow do you kill your TPM chip?
4 0 ReplyLevel 1, turn off in bios
Level 2, desolder from motherboard
Level 3, remove cpu pins related to tpm
Level 4, decap cpu, laser off tpm bus or blocks
16 2 ReplyLevel 5, throw computer into a volcano and go live in the woods using no technology more complex than a flint and steel.
4 0 ReplyThank you, the best I can do is level 2 (once I learn how to solder)
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Disable it in the bios
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Just disabled it in BIOS/UEFI. Should I disable security device support too, or doesn't it matter when fTPM is disabled?
1 0 ReplyOr depends what they mean by security service support. Presumably some kind of external (usb ?) device ?
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