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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG
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This is the comment I was replying to. I was simply pointing out that for a company "going hard" on SteamDeck and Linux, it's curious that they would spend any amount of effort at all enabling the TPM to allow people to run Windows. I guess my point is I don't think they're "going hard" quite as much as the person I responded to thinks.
Also it was just pointing out that this specifically can affect the SteamDeck since they use an AMD processor with AMD fTPM.
I don't see how it affects the Steam Deck. It's entirely possible that the Steam Deck supports fTPM purely because it was part of the motherboard template Valve chose and it would have been more trouble to change it than to just leave it in.
so what’s your point?