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Except libreboot doesn't help. ME executes below BIOS/UEFI.
by yoo1I 10y ago
Except libreboot doesn't help. ME executes below BIOS/UEFI.
- SXX 10y agoThat's not the case. ME code is large and not bundled inside CPU. On old systems it's was possible to not provide ME firmware while keep CPU operational. On modern systems it's will just poweroff every 30 minutes if ME firmware not present and this is why libreboot won't support any newer hardware.
- jacquesm 10y ago> On modern systems it's will just poweroff every 30 minutes if ME firmware not present That's highly suggestive of a hidden agenda.
- kuschku 10y agoYou can still turn ME into "manufacturing test mode", where it will not execute things. But in that mode Intel Network Cards will poweroff every 3 minutes. I wondered why my I219-V didn’t work, until I found it worked with ME in normal mode. Now I’m back on a 2006 100M Realtek NIC
- nitrogen 10y agoWill it also shut down add-in cards in a PCIe slot?
- etatoby 10y ago> in that mode Intel Network Cards will poweroff every 3 minutes This is ridiculous. This is not a rootkit waiting to happen, it's already an operational rootkit! What is this company trying to achieve? Is this a military asset designed to attack foreign countries? Is the Cold War not over?
- kuschku 10y agoAnd, even worse, why is there not yet a startup competing with Intel in the desktop market? Are fabs the issues? Knowledge? Engineers? I mean, Uber got many billions in funding, with Ubers funding one could build easily a fab for 14nm process and hire all of AMD.
- etatoby 10y agoYes. What on earth would be the non-malicious purpose of this feature?
- yuvadam 10y agoWrong. On some machines, such as the X200, you can actually remove and disable the ME with coreboot/libreboot.
- yoo1I 10y agoInteresting, I understood that wrong then. But granted, I was researching it for the x220 and it was a while ago. Thanks for the hint.