Re: [coreboot] Server systems shipped with coreboot

Sorry for the previous mistypings. Redoing this mail properly.

On 03/24/2018 07:41 PM, Thierry Laurion wrote:
> Hi all, > > Le ven. 23 mars 2018 13:56, <[e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> 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 prevented by ME?
> > Same goes for any security holes opened by removing the ME. >
> > Security holes opened by removing the ME? fTPM? What else is implied 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
> > <[e-mail]
> > <mailto:[e-mail]>> > > a écrit : > >
> > 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] <mailto:[e-mail]>
> > <mailto:[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>>
> > <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> <mailto:[e-mail]
> > <mailto:[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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