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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:17:24
Message-Id: 1338945285.26651.2.camel@troll
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers by Michael Mol
1 On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 10:21 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > On Monday 04 Jun 2012 13:57:11 Michael Mol wrote:
4 > >> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >> > On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote:
6 > >> [snip]
7 > >>
8 > >> >> I'm putting on my tinfoil hat now and I'm going to pretend it's
9 > >> >> raining... :-/
10 > >> >
11 > >> > Can I please join you if you have a spare hat?
12 > >> >
13 > >> > On a 3 year old Dell laptop manufactured by the famous and well known
14 > >> > Winbond Electronics </sarcasm> I see this under lshw:
15 > >> >
16 > >> > *-remoteaccess UNCLAIMED
17 > >> > vendor: Intel
18 > >> > physical id: 2
19 > >> > capabilities: outbound
20 > >> >
21 > >> > but have not found a way of interrogating it or in anyway accessing it to
22 > >> > understand what it is or does ...
23 > >> >
24 > >> >
25 > >> > Note, this is not a UEFI machine:
26 > >> >
27 > >> > capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6 vsyscall32
28 > >>
29 > >> What proc?
30 > >
31 > > If you mean what /proc is this remoteaccess thing in, I don't really know.
32 > > How can I find it?
33 >
34 > Sorry...what CPU do you have?
35 >
36 > cat /proc/cpuinfo
37 >
38 >
39
40 Maybe this? -
41 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
42
43 There is a kernel interface (under power management I think) and I seem
44 to remember some of my recent motherboards come with it. If you have a
45 dell, look up iDRECV which does something similar. Its not only the
46 cpu, but the motherboard you need to worry about.
47
48 BillK

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