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What about VIA x86 CPUs? http://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/processors/ http://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/processors/ Do they implement some "secure boot"-like f
by forty 11y ago
What about VIA x86 CPUs? http://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/processors/ http://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/processors/ Do they implement some "secure boot"-like features?
- PeCaN 11y agoTo the best of my knowledge, VIA CPUs have no secure boot, management engine, or any other proprietary secondary hardware. Coreboot supports many VIA CPUs and motherboards[1], though it's unclear if it uses any binary blobs the FSF seems alright with VIA Technologies and apparently they're cooperative with open-source BIOS[2]. 1. https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards 2. https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html
- puzzlingcaptcha 11y agoVIA CPUs do have a crypto engine called Padlock (with all the usual goodies plus a randomness generator) which is not 'open' so be careful with that. I recall that some independent company was contracted to audit the entropy generator in VIA C7 but I can't find it now.