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Re:Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME by ogn3rd on Saturday June 11, 2016 @09:57AM (#11883447)
ME also controls the feature set available to the storage controller. I.E. whether or not it can support RAID 0, 1, 5 natively. Its features can be updated via BIOS firmware, which has to correspond to whats baked into the CPU. It can be bypassed using a special version of BIOS firmware in combination with a cpu with the right fuses blown. It almost takes an act of god to get all those things, even in their lab, when you're getting paid to test it.
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Re:Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME by amluto on Sunday June 12, 2016 @09:36PM (#11891252)
Really? That surprises me.

AFAICT Intel's desktop RAID tech literally just remaps PCI vendor and device ids (which is a wee bit more complicated with NVMe / AHCI over SATA Express). The boot process was an option ROM and is presumably now baked into UEFI. The driver does the rest.

I can imagine that a couple bits in ME tell the UEFI blob and the driver which feature set to enable. Is there more?

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