cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2852886
For those out of the loop, some AMD users have been suffering from stuttering issues caused by the AMD fTPM random number generator. A firmware/BIOS update appears to fix the issue for some users, but not others, leading to more bug reports being sent in. Last week, Linus Torvalds said “let’s just disable the stupid fTPM hwrnd thing”, and, as of today the Linux kernel has gone ahead and blanket disabled RNG use for all current AMD fTPMs.
You’ll need to use a bleeding edge kernel to get this patch unless it’s backported to older kernels by your distro’s maintainers. I doubt this will happen for say Debian or Ubuntu. Instead, you’d have to wait for a new HWE that has this new kernel or whatever the equivalent in Debian is.
You can also solve this problem by disabling the TPM in the BIOS settings, assuming your motherboard has such a setting. No TPM, no problem.