Le 06/09/2017 04:13, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult a écrit :
> On 05.09.2017 18:14, mdn wrote:
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> If I understood it correctly, they managed to boot an modified firmware
> on that ME core, so it theoretically should be possible to run an
> entirely own firmware on it. Maybe barebox or plan9.
They did manage to boot a modified firmware but there's still components
that aren't yet removed.
--it also removes all the modules from the images except RBE, KERNEL,
SYSLIB, and BUP--
So the modules RBE, KERNEL, SYSLIB and BUP are still their and if you
read correctly
--It should be noted that ROM, RBE, and KERNEL are executed at the zero
privilege level (in ring-0) of the MIA kernel.--
Has for the theoretical completely free firmware, only the future will
tell us.
But has I see things it would be faster to go on POWER and besides
faster we are 100% sure that there isn't anything in the background that
we don't know about.
Because has time goes on the X86 exploration we found surprise after
surprise.

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> Having a serial console (maybe via some free gpios ?) would be a really
> cool things.
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>> Imo seeing the awful state of X86 platforms, POWER is our only hope to
>> own what we buy.
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> What about ARM ?
They began to implement similar ME/PSP functions I unfortunately don't
remember the name of it so if someone knows please post it.
There's also the GPU problem, there is zero effort from allwinner to
free their MALI GPU and worse they persecute those who try to reverse
engineer it (see the LIMA driver developer) that's why no 100% free
driver is available.
But still recently there has been people who tries to do something about it.
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2017-May/013845.html
https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=lima&date=2017-06-23
I hope they'll be ok.

If you are interested in ARM I suggest that you go on the ARM-netbook
mailing list.
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook
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