On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:40 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 03/18/2018 05:33 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:24 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: >>> >>> Everyone please remember this is simply an exploit to obtain data off of >>> AMD's version of ME which is a DRM mechanism added for hollywood and it >>> requires physical access to reprogram the firmware thus this exploit has >>> zero impact on anyone who doesn't profit off of DRM. >>> >> Except if it's anything like the Intel ME exploit, physical access can >> be faked using a compromized USB device. > > You mean the skylake debug port? >>> >>> ME/PSP are evil - don't buy computers that have them - you have choices! >> >> No we don't. > > Yes we do. > TALOS 2? g505s laptop? kgpe-d16? novena? > > I play new games at max settings on a pre-PSP AMD system KGPE-D16 where I > have installed a libre firmware for the board and the BMC via the recent > OpenBMC port (the facebook version of OpenBMC....less features than the IBM > version but still quite nice) > > The TALOS 2 costs less than a brand new xeon system with similar performance > and it has better features such as IBM's OpenBMC, PCI-e 4.0, SMT4 etc. > The stars have aligned and given us a libre firmware server/workstation that > is brand new and very very fast. >
The x86 parts are slowly going out of stock to the point where they are expensive *when* I have found them. The TALOS 2 is the cheapest POWER system available, but is still many thousands of dollars more than a consumer computer (though much higher performance). ARM based computers are not comparable in performance to common consumer systems. Self hosting on a performant ARM processor is not a reasonable proposition. High dollar ARM servers have closed motherboard firmware. Sure, if you devote all of a good salary's disposable income to a mostly open hardware computer you can buy one. Most people don't make that much. The bigger issue than that is all main manufacturers do not want to remove their backdoors, and so ever so slowly, there will come to be absolutely no choice at all, even for inordinate amounts of money.
