[coreboot] Management engine firmware

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 13.06.2013 03:41, George Chriss wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> <phcoder at gmail.com <mailto:phcoder at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, all. In order to build X201 rom, you need management engine
>> firmware. For chromebook the appropriate blobs are in 3rdparty repo, I
>> suppose supplied by Intel. The only place where I could get ME firmware
>> for X201 is by dumping chip with external programmer. It's probably not
>> appropriate for coreboot to distribute those blobs (I'm unsure on their
>> license) and given that it writes a log to its section which may contain
>> private data, I don't want to distribute it either. Yet without this
>> blob the build legitimately fails. Any suggestions on handling this?
> 
> Are the coreboot dependencies function calls or something
> hardware-specific?
Coreboot send ME a message to tell it what to use for UMA.
ACPI (at least CPU temperature) also goes through ME even if you read it
from EC.
>  Is it possible to build a 'dummy' management engine
> that still boots the X201, even with reduced functionality?
It will reboot or hard lock after 30 minutes
>  (Is ME
> binary code executed at any point using coreboot?)
> 
No, it's executed on coprocessor, it's in the same flash but coreboot
doesn't have to do anything to load it.
> Sincerely,
> George
> 
> 
> 


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