[Development] Broken RNG on AMD Ryzen CPUs affect QTemporaryFile, Qt IFW

Christian Kandeler Christian.Kandeler at qt.io
Tue Feb 18 12:59:24 CET 2020


On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:35:53 +0800
Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:

> See https://forum.qt.io/topic/111473/maintenance-tool-error-cannot-open-file-for-writing-no-error/

Probably the same as https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-77375.

> Is this worth a post on the Qt Blog? I foresee many frustrated and
> confused Ryzen users out there who would benefit from a reminder to
> update their BIOS.

I suppose it won't hurt, but I wonder how such a system is usable at all...


Christian


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