Hi permanentjpeg, On 23.05.2018 21:39, [email protected] wrote: > On 2018-05-23 19:32, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently acquired an Asus Vivobook E406SA 1.0, which I have been >> investigating to see if there is a possibility to port to coreboot. >> While doing this, I seem to have found some weird information about >> Intel ME on this laptop. Although the CPU was produced in 2016 and it >> can be assumed that it includes Intel ME, all the tests I've done come >> up with the conclusion that it doesn't. I've included some detailed >> logs in an attachment 'me.txt'. Going forward, what can I do to verify >> if this laptop does have Intel ME or not? Flashrom doesn't support >> laptops well and I don't have the ability to risk bricking this laptop >> currently, is there another option to read the flash chip in this? >> >> - permanentjpeg > > I forgot the attachment. Whoops.
it has an Atom based SoC. These do not have a Management Engine but a Trusted Execution Engine (TXE, or later Converged Security Engine, CSE, not sure about that name). The latter doesn't provide management fea- tures like AMT but is about the same as the ME otherwise (another con- troller in the chip(set) running a huge amount of, from my point of view, untrusted code). I don't know, but expect, that it also (like the ME) is more privileged than the actual x86 cores. Nico -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
