Re: [coreboot] Libreboot X220 pre-order from Minifree - libre firmware preinstalled

[Merlin Büge]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:26:22 +0100
Jonathan Neuschäfer  wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 08:24:49PM -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
> [...]
> > I will be greatly impressed if the 30 minute bullshit is somehow
> > bypassed.
>
> I guess you haven't seen Nicola Corna's recent work on the me_cleaner
> tool, then:
> https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/tree/util/me_cleaner
> https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/How-does-it-work?
>
> Jonathan

He probably has.

There's currently no known way to *completely* disable the ME on
Sandy/Ivy Bridge Thinkpads without the 30 minutes limit.