[coreboot] Server systems shipped with coreboot

[Thierry Laurion]

Hi all,

Le ven. 23 mars 2018 13:56, <tpearson at raptorengineering.com> 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 orevrntrd by ME?

Same goes for any security holes opened by removing the ME.

Like deactivating fTPM Boeing considered as opening security holes? I don't
understand the suppositions made 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
> > <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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> >>
> >> - --
> >> Timothy Pearson
> >> Raptor Engineering
> >> +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line)
> >> +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard)
> >> https://www.raptorengineering.com
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