Re:Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME
by amluto on Sunday June 12, 2016 @09:36PM
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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?
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?