Re: [coreboot] Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

2017-12-14 Thread Youness Alaoui
In my opinion, the ME is indeed disabled because the entire ME functionality is disabled, no ME processes are running, and the kernel on its own is irrelevant, even if it keeps running. However, I do not have anymore a strong counter opinion to your statement that you don't consider the ME to be di

Re: [coreboot] coreboot support for Minnowboard Turbot E3845

2017-12-14 Thread Michael Graichen
Hey Piotr, I'm glad to read that somebody else is working on the Atoms as well. I'm not sure about my ucode config. At the moment I'm using 5 include files: M0130673322.h M0130678806.h M0130678817.h M0130679901.h and M0230672228.h for a E3845 Family: 0x06 Model:0x37 Stepping: 0x09. I copied the

Re: [coreboot] Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

2017-12-14 Thread Timothy Pearson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for the detailed response; I figured there had to be some basic miscommunication somewhere. :-) So I assume we now agree that the ME on Sylake + is not disabled, merely limited? On 12/14/2017 01:20 AM, Youness Alaoui wrote: > Hi, > > From

[coreboot] EARLY_CBMEM_INIT for Geode LX platforms

2017-12-14 Thread Michal Zygowski
Hello Everyone, As a result of incoming 4.7 release many boards are going to be deprecated. We would like to support alix platforms which are based on Geode LX and yet not EARLY_CBMEM_INIT enabled. We have all hardware at hand and would gladly bring these platforms up to current standards. We saw

Re: [coreboot] Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

2017-12-14 Thread Zoran Stojsavljevic
> According to Positive Technologies, on Skylake and higher (like the > Purism machines) the kernel loads the BUP, and the HAP bit only disables > the normal userspace processes This is very good observation. Let us look again into the unknown code, compressed by Huffman (unknown tables): [image:

Re: [coreboot] Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

2017-12-14 Thread R S
Thanks for elaborating and shedding light on this for some of us non-experts who are just lurking around. On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Youness Alaoui < kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net> wrote: > Hi, > > From the PT article you linked to, after the stage 5 of BUP execution : > "It is at this st