On 08/16/2018 07:47 AM, Marcus Linsner wrote: >> >> I've observed that Qubes installation rarely ever succeeds on X370 >> motherboards so I believe the same case applies to X470 motherboards with a >> higher chance of failure since it is newer. The reason for this I believe is >> because these high-end gaming motherboards have alot of functionalities/bugs >> that break/interfere with Qubes installation which is an awful letdown. > > I've had no issues installing Qubes R4.0 several times(for fun) on Asus PRIME > X370-A motherboard. > > As an aside, this motherboard even has a setting to use Z370's Trusted > Platform Module (TPM) [1] - BIOS setting "Firmware-based Trusted Platform > Module (fTPM)", so I assume that I can set up Anti Evil Maid in Qubes but > haven't tried yet. > > [1] shown as Intel® Platform Trust Technology (Intel® PTT) [2] in this link: > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/chipsets/desktop-chipsets/z370.html > [2] PTT to TPM mapped in this link: > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000007452/mini-pcs.html >
fTPM is an ME application - it is fake security and usually won't work with anything that wants a real TPM. I of course always recommend purchasing a device with no black box supervisor processors like ME/PSP. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/72c2fe14-4d70-082f-fb57-42070ca3720e%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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