Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust

Re:Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust by ghostpepper on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:36PM (#22497233)

Does this announcement mean it's finally possible to run FOSS firmware like Coreboot on modern Intel hardware? If so, this is a huge finding

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Re:Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust by wmf on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:51PM (#22497415)

Coreboot already runs on modern Intel hardware. This vulnerability doesn't eliminate the blobs or the need for the ME to initialize hardware before Coreboot runs if that's what you're thinking of.

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Re:Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust by bubblethink on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:55PM (#22500388)

Well, I think people care about whether this can be used to bypass bootguard. If yes, it would enable coreboot support on every laptop.

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Re:Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust by ghostpepper on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:11PM (#22498313)

Could this vulnerability be used to bypass the ME? I'd like to run coreboot on my thinkpad X1 carbon gen7

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Re:Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust by bubblethink on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:55PM (#22500392)

The ME is irrelevant for you. It's bootguard that is preventing you from running coreboot.

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Re:Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust by zelphirkalt on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:47PM (#22497372)

That's what I am wondering too! Perhaps Libreboot can make progress and we could have completely free systems with more up to date hardware after all? That would be so great.

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Re:Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust by gentleman11 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:40PM (#22497278)

Looks like it could make it easier to get around DRM also?

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