Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread Claudia
February 9, 2020 8:52 PM, "Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 09:28:13AM -0800, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 5:25:56 PM UTC, brend...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> >>> Has anyone

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
Claudia: >> marmarek: >> For this particular case (microcode included in BIOS newer than in OS), I >> see two options: make >> BIOS (coreboot, right?) apply microcode update on resume too, or include >> newer microcode in OS. > > I want to make one thing clear: I am **not** suggesting this

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread zachm1996
On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 2:52:57 PM UTC-6, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 09:28:13AM -0800, brend...@gmail.com > wrote: > > On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 5:25:56 PM UTC, brend...@gmail.com > wrote:

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 09:28:13AM -0800, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 5:25:56 PM UTC, brend...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > Has anyone tried utilizing the xen command line options to mask bits in > > the cpuid, in

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread brendan . hoar
On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 5:25:56 PM UTC, brend...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Has anyone tried utilizing the xen command line options to mask bits in > the cpuid, in particular section 1.2.35 cpuid_mask_ecx)? > > The man page below says that "Settings applied here take effect globally, >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread brendan . hoar
On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 3:19:34 PM UTC, Claudia wrote: > > > marmarek: > > This is a very bad idea to "fix" it. Those missing/changed CPUID bits > later on will cause issues. > > And given most of the microcode updates recently are about speculative > execution, missing those > > features

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread Claudia
> marmarek: > This is a very bad idea to "fix" it. Those missing/changed CPUID bits later > on will cause issues. > And given most of the microcode updates recently are about speculative > execution, missing those > features will make the host vulnerable to those issues again. There are >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread Brendan Hoar
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 9:15 AM Claudia wrote: > From linuxreviews.org: > "There have been reports of RDRAND issues after resuming from suspend on > some AMD family 15h and family 16h systems. [...] RDRAND support is > indicated by CPUID Fn0001_ECX[30]. This bit can be reset by clearing > MSR

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread Claudia
February 9, 2020 9:52 AM, zachm1...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 3:29:26 AM UTC-6, zach...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 8:09:05 PM UTC-6, Marek >> Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: >>> If that's about something else, then fixing it would require finding

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread zachm1996
On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 3:29:26 AM UTC-6, zach...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 8:09:05 PM UTC-6, Marek > Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 02:13:56PM -0800, brend...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-09 Thread zachm1996
On Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 8:09:05 PM UTC-6, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 02:13:56PM -0800, brend...@gmail.com > wrote: > > On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 9:35:25 PM UTC, zach...@gmail.com wrote: >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-08 Thread Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 02:13:56PM -0800, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 9:35:25 PM UTC, zach...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I preemptively submitted this PR to see what the Qubes team thinks. > >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-07 Thread brendan . hoar
On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 9:35:25 PM UTC, zach...@gmail.com wrote: > > I preemptively submitted this PR to see what the Qubes team thinks. > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-vmm-xen/pull/70 > > I agree it probably should be fixed upstream, although I've seen the Qubes > team make exceptions

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-07 Thread zachm1996
On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 3:15:38 PM UTC-6, Claudia wrote: > > February 7, 2020 8:10 PM, zach...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 2:07:34 PM UTC-6, zach...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > >> On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 7:03:14 AM UTC-6, Claudia wrote: > >>> February 7,

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-07 Thread Claudia
February 7, 2020 8:10 PM, zachm1...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 2:07:34 PM UTC-6, zach...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 7:03:14 AM UTC-6, Claudia wrote: >>> February 7, 2020 6:00 AM, zach...@gmail.com wrote:> I have a Thinkpad T495 >>> with an AMD

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-07 Thread zachm1996
On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 2:07:34 PM UTC-6, zach...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 7:03:14 AM UTC-6, Claudia wrote: >> >> February 7, 2020 6:00 AM, zach...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> > I have a Thinkpad T495 with an AMD Ryzen Pro 3700U and Vega 10 >> graphics. Everything

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-07 Thread zachm1996
On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 7:03:14 AM UTC-6, Claudia wrote: > > February 7, 2020 6:00 AM, zach...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I have a Thinkpad T495 with an AMD Ryzen Pro 3700U and Vega 10 graphics. > Everything seems to be > > working besides suspend/resume which is crucial for me since I'm on

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-07 Thread Claudia
February 7, 2020 1:03 PM, "Claudia" wrote: > February 7, 2020 6:00 AM, zachm1...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I have a Thinkpad T495 with an AMD Ryzen Pro 3700U and Vega 10 graphics. >> Everything seems to be >> working besides suspend/resume which is crucial for me since I'm on the go a >> lot. I

Re: [qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-07 Thread Claudia
February 7, 2020 6:00 AM, zachm1...@gmail.com wrote: > I have a Thinkpad T495 with an AMD Ryzen Pro 3700U and Vega 10 graphics. > Everything seems to be > working besides suspend/resume which is crucial for me since I'm on the go a > lot. I had to build my > own Qubes R4.0 ISO to get the

[qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2020-02-06 Thread zachm1996
I have a Thinkpad T495 with an AMD Ryzen Pro 3700U and Vega 10 graphics. Everything seems to be working besides suspend/resume which is crucial for me since I'm on the go a lot. I had to build my own Qubes R4.0 ISO to get the installer to work due to it needing a 5.0+ kernel for the graphics

[qubes-users] Re: R4 system requirements; AMD compatibility?

2019-06-04 Thread Sphere
I haven't personally tried this but I am highly confident that Qubes will definitely work on an ASRock X370 Taichi https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370%20Taichi/ It's the motherboard out there that has aced being able to do GPU Passthrough on a Windows Guest VM on a Linux Host so all in all it's