Re: [coreboot] greetings and laptop questions

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

> I am looking at a new laptop, and one of my options is a Dell Precision

7510 (I like the quad-core and loads of RAM available)
> but I would like to not use a vendor BIOS.

I see... SKL-S ->  Intel® Core™ i7-6820HQ

INTEL claims on these babies to have the following:
https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intel-alters-design-of-s...

SGX: Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX
https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/09/26/protecting-application-secrets-with-intel-sgx
)

What are the requirements? Why you do not want UEFI BIOS on the machine?
Any specific reasons for that?

I see only one serious reason: you don't want ME to work on this machine,
since you do not trust to ME as the base of the unknown arc/x86 (quark ?)
based applications running in its own 32MB space close to TOLUD.

If you do have bare metal (type 1) HYP and run several VMs, does this
assure the security and well protected VM space, regardless UEFI BIOS
below? Anyone?

Thank you,
Zoran
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On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Jim Hendrick 
wrote:
> Just subscribed - I will mostly "lurk" but I do have a few questions for
> the group.
>
> I am looking at a new laptop, and one of my options is a Dell Precision
> 7510 (I like the quad-core and loads of RAM available) but I would like to
> not use a vendor BIOS.
>
> Has anyone put coreboot on one of these?
>
> Anyone tried and failed?
>
> Any recommendations for something similar (a good laptop ~15 in.
> quad-core, 32GB RAM and fast SSD storage)?
> I will be running multiple virtual machines - hence the RAM and cores...
>
> (I also am looking at system76 and Purism but I am bit leery of spending a
> lot with a small / new company - comments appreciated)
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Jim