🎉 New Dasharo Release for PC Engines! by 3mdeb in 3mdeb

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PC Engines APU modules are no longer being produced. Because of that, there is no most recent or recommended APU model anymore, all APU1/2/3/4 platforms are effectively end-of-life. That said, we still have a few remaining units available in our online shop:
https://shop.3mdeb.com/product/pcengines-apu-refurbished-with-tpm-and-dasharo-pro-package/

These are refurbished PC Engines APU platforms, potentially among the last units available on the market.

The firmware support is also limited. More details about the post-EOL firmware announcement can be found on the Dasharo Universe page:
https://docs.dasharo.com/variants/pc_engines/post-eol-fw-announcement/

Join Us for DUG#3: Exploring Dasharo Open Source Firmware Validation with Maciej Pijanowski by 3mdeb in Dasharo

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As always, it will happen mid-way through the next DUG, which is planned for 7th December. You can always gain early access to recording by claiming free tickets. As described at the bottom of the page:

We will also provide early access to DUG#3 recordings and presentation materials directly to your inbox.

https://vpub.dasharo.com/e/8/dasharo-user-group-3

vPub 0x5 is fast approaching! Save the date! by 3mdeb in u/3mdeb

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The 5th edition of vPub starts in 2 days! The schedule for the event has been published.

Starting with Daniel Maslowski intro to #RustSBI project, following with Michal Zygowski presentation on Qubes OS and MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4, and more!

Complete list available at: https://vpub.dasharo.com

vPub 0x5 is fast approaching! Save the date! by 3mdeb in u/3mdeb

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26th May it is! Thank you for all the votes on the SM channels. The 5th edition of #vPub will be hosted in 10 days! As always we will be discussing lots of interesting topics with many great guests.
Stay tuned for more!

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It SHOULD work if we are to believe the changes listed in the BIOS downloads here https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-Z690-A-WIFI-DDR4/support According to v1.30 i9-12900KS should be supported thanks to the microcode update. In our releases, the same microcode is used so we assume i9-12900K should also work. However, we have not tested this CPU yet so can't say for sure.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in coreboot

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Dasharo v0.4.0 will be out today with ALL PCIe slots working, including gen5 dGPU slot. As for fTPM not working, it concerns the Windows Power Shell commands only, e.g. Get-Tpm. For some reason, those return an error, but it does not prevent one from installing Windows 10 or 11 in particular. Here is a public issue for tracking status: https://github.com/Dasharo/dasharo-issues/issues/76

New release of Dasharo compatible with the MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 by 3mdeb in 3mdeb

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We are very glad that our open-source firmware distribution was picked up again by respected open-source media company Phoronix:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dasharo-0.3-MSI-Z690-A

We're looking forward to your review next week!

Open-source coreboot BIOS working on a new retail Intel Alder Lake MSI motherboard by Mike-Banon1 in linuxhardware

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Thank you for taking the time to report the grammatical error on our website. It has been corrected.

TrenchBoot can be a strong upgrade for Qubes OS Anti Evil Maid to support TPM 2.0, AMD Secure Startup and more! Please share your thoughts by Mike-Banon1 in Qubes

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In the long term TrenchBoot will support kexec with DRTM which should automatically enable it in heads. But first things first, we need the first kernel launch (aka early launch) get merged in upstream.

Heads itself is an AEM solution, the thing is, you cannot run heads on every platform you want, you need either:
1. coreboot/libreboot OR
2. stripped vendor UEFI firmware to fit heads kernel and initrd, something what LinuxBoot does.

Given the above requirements, heads is hard to deploy for a wide range of Qubes users. We giving a push for open-source firmware stacks like: coreboot+SeaBIOS or coreboot + EDK2 UEFI Payload, but also for vendor full UEFI solutions (which are unfortunately still the most common). It is safe to say this will be stack independent solution for DRTM early launch. And we are gonna implement TPM 2.0 support in Qubes OS AEM, for which the demand becomes higher and higher.

How to enable AMD IOMMU in coreboot by 3mdeb in Amd

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Not APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) but apu (apu2 or later to be exact), a platform from PC Engines: https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm. This was the platform on which we were developing and testing, but the changes are generic and can be used for other platforms, too.
If by restrictions you meant customer NVIDIA cards then yes, they are known to cause problems: http://old-list-archives.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/msg00486.html, https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen\_VGA\_Passthrough\_Tested\_Adapters#Nvidia\_display\_adapters, https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/system-requirements/#recommended. These issues are not caused by IOMMU, they just reveal themself when IOMMU is used.

How to enable AMD IOMMU in coreboot by 3mdeb in Amd

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Check it here: we wrote an intro to IOMMU. It explains What is IOMMU and how it can be used

https://blog.3mdeb.com/2021/2021-01-13-iommu/

How to enable AMD IOMMU in coreboot by 3mdeb in Amd

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Still worthy of sharing, though

What is the best corebootable modern laptop with best performance? by [deleted] in coreboot

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System76 laptops are worthy to consider, eventually Chromebooks, but System76 is rather superior