2023-08-01 09:00:00
Lately, AMD has many open problems, and not only those that have to do with the drop in sales in the consumer sector. There is a vulnerability that affects some Ryzen, mainly based on Zen 2, which will not be fixed until the end of the year. It has had problems with memory compatibility on the AM5 platform that it is finally solving to be able to use it in a stable manner above about 6400 MHz. But it has also had problems with its implementation for firmware of the TPM (fTPM) required to use Windows 11, which was causing hitches. It seemed that it was solved, but no.
Now there has been a new notice that the problem with the fTPM of AMD motherboards that has been detected in Linux affects the random number generation (RNG). It has not gone down well with Linus Torvalds, who when seeing that they have to return to correct an fTPM bug in the Linux kernel has said that “disable that stupid angry (RNG for hardware) of the fTPM. Maybe you have to use it to “generate entropy from different sources” during boot time, but clearly no must be used at runtime.
In the message sent to the list of email they use to develop the linux kernel, Torvalds has continued to comment on what he thinks of the problem and what they can do so that Linux users are not affected. But the thread closes with the same “disable that stupid angry del fTPM».
Via:
Tom’s Hardware.
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