On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 23:09:20 -0700
Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2021-07-03 5:14 p.m., mcgarrett wrote:
> >
> >> On July 3, 2021 at 7:55 PM Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 19:46:01 -0400 (EDT)
> >> mcgarrett wrote:
> >>
> >>> What is a TPM, and does it come with the win 11 package, or must it be obrained elsewhere?
> >>
> >> It is a piece of hardware that either comes with your motherboard
> >> if it is new enough, or you have to add (if it has a header to
> >> allow adding) or you can't get at all without buying a new computer.
> >>
> >> Apparently all the add-in modules for motherboards which were
> >> around $15 before Microsoft announced the requirement are all
> >> around $150 now on ebay and out of stock everywhere else :-).
> >
> > I'm glad I don't need Windows for anything! If the upgrade turns out to be free, I'll put it on my almost new machine, IF it has the TPM. (How would I know?_ ==doug
>
> Anything made in the last few years should have one. If you're running Linux, you can check with "ls /dev/tpm*" or "journalctl | grep -i tpm".
>
Mine is too old?
[~]$ journalctl | grep -i tpm
Jun 17 19:54:01 smicro.local.lan kernel: ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
...
Jun 25 13:42:31 smicro.local.lan kernel: ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
Jun 30 15:14:54 smicro.local.lan dracut[141707]: dracut module 'tpm2-tss' will not be installed, because command 'tpm2' could not be found!
Jun 30 15:14:55 smicro.local.lan dracut[141707]: dracut module 'tpm2-tss' will not be installed, because command 'tpm2' could not be found!
Jun 30 15:15:16 smicro.local.lan dracut[141707]: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6708 Jun 10 17:56 usr/lib/modules/5.12.13-200.fc33.x86_64/kernel/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asym_tpm.ko.xz
Jun 30 15:15:16 smicro.local.lan dracut[141707]: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2072 Jun 10 17:56 usr/lib/modules/5.12.13-200.fc33.x86_64/kernel/crypto/asymmetric_keys/tpm_key_parser.ko.xz
Jun 30 16:57:00 smicro.local.lan kernel: ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
...
Jul 04 10:58:45 smicro.local.lan kernel: ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
[~]$ sudo lshw
smicro.local.lan
description: Desktop Computer
product: MS-7C37 (To be filled by O.E.M.)
vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
version: 3.0
serial: To be filled by O.E.M.
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.8 dmi-2.8 smp vsyscall32
configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop family=To be filled by O.E.M. sku=To be filled by O.E.M. uuid=24B01ED7-4A68-1996-A90D-2CF05DD19CEE
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: X570-A PRO (MS-7C37)
vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
version: 3.0
serial: 07C3731_KA1C043394
slot: To be filled by O.E.M.
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends International, LLC.
physical id: 0
version: H.C0
date: 01/25/2021
size: 64KiB
capacity: 32MiB
...
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 15
bus info: cpu@0
version: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
serial: Unknown
slot: AM4
size: 4014MHz
capacity: 4200MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 100MHz
capabilities: lm fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate ssbd ibpb vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es cpufreq
configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=8
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