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Linus Torvalds suggests disabling AMD's 'stupid' fTPM to solve a persistent stuttering issue | The problem affects Ryzen-based PCs running both Windows and Linux

www.techspot.com Linus Torvalds suggests disabling AMD's "stupid" fTPM to solve a persistent stuttering issue

In a characteristically outspoken manner, Torvalds told his colleagues to "disable the stupid fTPM HWRND thing" since the fixes that have been rolled out have largely been...

Linus Torvalds suggests disabling AMD's 'stupid' fTPM to solve a persistent stuttering issue | The problem affects Ryzen-based PCs running both Windows and Linux::undefined

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And there I was happy to purchase an AMD Ryzen laptop a few months ago. After the laptop keyboard problems (very slow typing due to faulty IRQ overrides, Mario Limonciello submitted a patch but it's still not part of any stable release, you have to patch the sources yourself), now it turns out the occasional stuttering is also because of AMD.
- Update your bios. A new driver update has fixed this.
  Linux kernel 6.2 fixed this too I think
  
  My BIOS is up-to-date and no the 6.2 doesn't fix it. Mario himself said his patch will be part of one of the 6.5 rc's (and it looks like it's already part of the current rc). Until then, anyone with a recent Ryzen CPU and a laptop keyboard needs to apply the patch manually on the current versions.
  
  And here's me with a Huawei laptop where I can't upgrade the BIOS. I've had to completely disable fTPM just to stop the freezing.

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