On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:22:48 -0500 "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 01/11/2018 05:05 AM, Nico Huber wrote: > > > you seem to be misinformed about the G505s. There is no open-source > > gfx init for AMD (not in firmware, not in the OS), so within your > > require- ments it's not usable as a laptop. > I forgot to include my usual suffix mentioning that blobs are > required for video (and power management) > > I believe it is still much better than the C2D laptops in terms of > security despite the video blob as it has an IOMMU [1] and no ME/PSP. > [1] with the high end quad core CPU option > >> (as the previous C2D/C2Q's > >> such as the X200 are now permanently insecure without intervention > >> from intel apparently) > > It depends on the software you run. Please read more about Meltdown > > and Spectre. When you understood it, you can still start to worry. > > > >> At this point even a massive performance loss is better than > >> having to throw out so much now-useless hardware. > > Yes? and that can be accomplished without microcode updates, AFAIK. > I was and still am under the impression that fixing both issue > classes requires microcode updates, can you link to a better > explanation? https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/01/Intel-Analysis-of-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channels.pdf > > -- > coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org > https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- Merlin Büge <t...@bluenox07.de> -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot