As far as I know, AMD does not have any "evil brother" of Intel ME. It only has AMD PSP (Platform Secure Processor) that is built-in to CPU. So, I don't think that cutting a PCH from AMD CPU has any practical value: even if the platform will boot after such a radical change to computer's hardware, you'll lose a lot of essential stuff like USB ports
2017-03-16 8:03 GMT+03:00 Zoran Stojsavljevic <zoran.stojsavljevic@gmail.com
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Hello Coreboot folks,
I have couple of interesting questions here.
Recently, I have started learning about AMD (RYZen did not live me unemotional), so after reading several articles (especially one with AMD architecture): http://www.anandtech.com/show/11182/how-to-get-ryzen-working -on-windows-7-x64
I found/got from this article very interesting thought: AMD's APU, as shown on this picture, could be left alone, even not connecting Chipset/PCH!?
I know that for INTEL this is impossible to do. With early INTEL ME involvement to HW bring up (wrt PMIC and EC), I am wondering if this is very similar architecture with AMD?
[image: Inline image 1]
[1] Did anybody try some proprietary embedded design, with AMD's APU all alone (is it at all possible)? [2] if [1] true, does anybody have some HW schema showing in details how this is done/designed? [3] if [1] is true. does Coreboot support such AMD designs (sans chipsets/PCHs)?
Thank you, Zoran
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