On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 15:23, Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com> wrote: > Last night, I asked my kids if they brushed their teeth. They said: > "Dad, my toothbrush was available." They argued that mere availability > was a better situation than not *having* a toothbrush. They were > logically right, of course, but they still got cavities.
I don't see how that's comparable, sorry. Surely Intel wants to sell hardware advertising TME as a security feature? > > So my take-away from that is that it's currently impossible to > > actually say if your system is *actually* using TME. > Not in a generic way, and it can't be derived from cpuid or MSRs alone. Well, it seems not in any way at the moment. > I'm pretty sure I'm using TME, but I didn't become sure from > poking at sysfs. How do you know that Lenovo didn't disable TME without looking at dmesg? I don't think "pretty sure" is good enough when TME is considered a security feature. Richard
