Re: [coreboot] Server systems shipped with coreboot

[Thierry Laurion]

Hi all,

Le ven. 23 mars 2018 13:56,  a écrit :
> I am not a lawyer, but have some understanding of the relevant liability
> law.  This is not legal advice.
>
> If damage is cause to the hardware that the ME would have prevented, very
> likely.

Damage orevrntrd by ME?

Same goes for any security holes opened by removing the ME.

Like deactivating fTPM Boeing considered as opening security holes? I don't
understand the suppositions made here.
> This
> is not a supported option by Intel, so (practically*) they have no further
> liability for anything that goes wrong on ME scrubbed systems.
> You would need to prove in an airtight manner that the same defect shows
>
> up on fully updated ME-enabled systems.  Given the closed nature of the ME
> this may be difficult in a legal environment short of reproducing a defect
> across multiple ME-enabled identical systems.
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Searching legal implications of reselling deblobbed hardware, and can't
> > fight straight answers.
> >
> > If the bios is replaced, and ME is disabled with its modules erased,
>
> could
> > the maker pursue the seller for having made those modifications?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Thierry
> >
> > Le mar. 23 janv. 2018 13:56, Timothy Pearson
> >
> > a écrit :
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> > > 4 cores, SMT4.  There's an 8-core available for $190 more, and AFAIK
> > > there are plans to start offering an 18-core server chip very shortly.
> > >
> > > These are the OpenPOWER machines, so there is hardware virtualization
> > > support (including I/O passthrough) that works well with kvm and QEMU.
> > > I haven't really heard anything referred to as "LPAR" on these newer
> > > POWER8/POWER9 machines outside of legacy documents.
> > >
> > > On 01/23/2018 12:47 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> > > > how many cores is that? Does it come with LPAR?
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 9:48 PM [e-mail]
> > >
> > > > <[e-mail] > wrote:
> > > > In case anyone wants to know the (non-coreboot) libre firmware
> > >
> > > TALOS
> > > 2
> > > > single CPU/board combo is now only 2.5K.
> > > >
> > > > I still can't figure out how they managed to make it so
> > >
> > > affordable,
> > > this
> > > > is seriously great.
> > > >
> > > > --
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> > >
> > > Timothy Pearson
> > > Raptor Engineering
> > > [phone] (direct line)
> > > [phone] (switchboard)
> > > https://www.raptorengineering.com
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