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to be fair, that's 2 MiB code that is the base of the other os you never heard of, the IME, AMT and their backdoor capabilities [1] 1: https://fsf.org/blogs/co
by k8tte 11y ago
to be fair, that's 2 MiB code that is the base of the other os you never heard of, the IME, AMT and their backdoor capabilities [1]
1: https://fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology https://fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology
- jokr004 11y agoYou know, lights out management is a wonderful thing and there's never been any kind of evidence that these features do anything but offer functionality that Intel's customers asked for.
- creshal 11y agoNo, that's just the CPU µcode. IME/AMT are part of the BIOS/EFI images, which is a whopping 16 MiB for my current motherboard.
- makomk 11y agoThe current CPU microcode download appears to be 0.81 MB compressed for every single Intel CPU since the Pentium 4.