[coreboot] Server systems shipped with coreboot

[tpearson at raptorengineering.com]

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.  Same goes for any security holes opened by removing the ME.  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
> <tpearson at raptorengineering.com>
> 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 Taiidan at gmx.com
>> <mailto:Taiidan at gmx.com>
>> > <Taiidan at gmx.com <mailto:Taiidan at gmx.com>> 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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