On 08/22/2018 05:32 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Don Wright - 22.08.18, 21:56: >> El Reg has [1]published a disagreement between a Debian maintainer and >> Intel over changes to license terms in the latest CPU microcode >> updates. The added terms (see comments) appear to attach liability to >> both Debian and mirror sites if the end user violates certain new >> restrictions regarding benchmarking. Debian has chosen not to play. >> >> [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/21/intel_cpu_patch_licence/ > > Rant opened: > > /me prays for the end of proprietary CPUs. > > This closed-down proprietary development model of CPUs just does not fly > anymore. Its clear that Intel does not act in the best interest of their > customers. > > Actually one of the reasons I am still with a ThinkPad T520, while I > have been offered a new laptop at work several times, is that I just do > not like to trigger buying a CPU that I know is crap from a security > point of view. Plus even more / newer Intel Management Engine. Intel > Boot Guard and other crap Intel came up with.
The T520 has ME although it is possible to nerf more if it than one could with a newer intel cpu - ME from nehalem on is impossible to disable although many companies will happily sell someone a "ME disabled" laptop where the kernel still runs. The best choice is the G505S on the pre-PSP AMD platform which is the last and best owner controlled x86 laptop - it has coreboot with open cpu/ram init (note: coreboot is not always open source firmware these days) For workstations/servers you have the libreboot KCMA-D8 and KGPE-D16 for x86 but they are old and slow which brings me to the TALOS 2 - a brand new OpenPOWER9 owner controlled open source firmware workstation/server which comes that way straight from the factory. https://raptorcs.com The price is very good for server hardware in its (high) performance class and they plan to make a TALOS "brick" style mobile workstation laptop if sales go well. OpenPOWER is the last owner controlled performance CPU arch - absolutely no hardware enforced code signing (not even microcode signing) There is a lot of documentation which one can examine on the TALOS wiki. > > Stop the crap. Now. > > I hope RISC-V will continue to go a different route and that at some day > there will be laptops with RISC-V. I´d order one even if the CPU would > be no faster than the Sandybridge i5 in this ThinkPad T520. > > Speed over quality. – Stop it already. > > Rant closed. > > Ciao, >
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