Qubes hardware recommendation - compatibility - motherboard - UEFI

[Patrick Schleizer]

Hi,

I am looking for a new motherboard compatible with Qubes.

A modern one that is capable of hosting an Intel i7 processor.

Anything important consider for hardware compatibility?

The board in my shortlist has UEFI BIOS.

Do all UEFI BIOS have (Qubes compatible) legacy boot support?

Or is there anything else to consider to avoid ending up with a
motherboard that is incompatible with Qubes?

Cheers,
Patrick

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 01:31:46PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a new motherboard compatible with Qubes.
>
> A modern one that is capable of hosting an Intel i7 processor.
>
> Anything important consider for hardware compatibility?

As noted earlier - integrated Intel GPU is the safest choice. Other
than that, pretty the same as for any other Linux.

> The board in my shortlist has UEFI BIOS.
>
> Do all UEFI BIOS have (Qubes compatible) legacy boot support?

Someone reported here an UEBI BIOS without legacy boot mode, but if it
have one, it should just work. Also in the near future Qubes will work
using UEFI :)

> Or is there anything else to consider to avoid ending up with a
> motherboard that is incompatible with Qubes?

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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