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has framework address the intel management engine / amd psp and does it have plans to remove it? (m.youtube.com)
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i know they cooperate with amd a lot so it's possible right?

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[โ€“] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are coreboot projects that turn off the Intel ME. The old Thinkpad coreboot flashes for the T4XX series had a payload to turn off ME by destroying the flashable part of ME without completely bricking the CPU IIRC. Basically replaced everything except the absolute minimum to get the CPU to still initialize, but without any ME bits.

The CPU has to support ME being disabled and the UEFI/BIOS has to know where the flag is set on the ME to tell it to turn off. Usually enterprise embedded platforms or server CPUs have that function, although I've heard some consumer chips do too. Everything I work on is embedded appliances that use Enterprise C3xxx and newer CPUs and they have this option exposed.

[โ€“] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

wait so if you flashed that and used nouveau and linux would you have a totally foss system?