[coreboot] Is Goryachy's JTAG hack a chance for free firmware ?

[Timothy Pearson]

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- From a technical perspective I'm not sure.  From a legal perspective
this sounds a lot like a "modchip" and may land people in a world of
legal trouble if used.

On 11/29/2017 04:39 PM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> i'm curios whether Goryachy's JTAG hack is a chance for
> getting rid of all proprietary ME/UEFI firmware.
> 
> If i'm correct, the ME firmware (or parts of it) is signed, and
> the CPU won't run (or switches off) if signatures don't match.
> 
> Can the JTAG channel be used to get around that ?
> 
> thx.
> 
> --mtx
> 


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Timothy Pearson
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