>Curious as to what has been "started". Looks like nothing. Frankly, I'd settle for popping the BIOS out and replacing it with a 1970's EPROM, if I thought I could do that without melting everything. So, yeah. Nothing. Starting with nothing. Looks that way to me, too.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 1:03 AM Frank Beuth <secli...@boxdan.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 09:16:04PM -0500, James Huddle wrote: > >Personally, I envision a sort of "open source BIOS" > >library in the distant future. Something we jack in on jtag > >if we have to. There is no harm in *starting.* Meanwhile, > >my super productive Dell laptop can't keep me from wondering > >what the SMM is doing during the SMI, while obsd or any other > >OS sleeps. > > There is Coreboot, but it's not a complete solution to the problem yet > - it does address SMM/SMI but as far as I can tell not necessarily on all > platforms, > - options for removing Intel ME/AMD PSP are limited, > - and of course it does not cover e.g onboad ARM coprocessors, embedded > controllers, keyboard controllers, hard disk controllers which may be > smart > enough to run a whole Linux kernel and edit your files behind your back > <http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack>, etc... >
