On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:18:53 +0200 Stefan Reinauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Stefan Tauner <[email protected]> [120826 21:31]: > > As you probably all know the procedure to relieve the coreboot- > > supported thinkpads from their proprietary firmware is not completely > > trivial[1]. The main problem is that the vendor has locked down the > > available SPI opcodes that we are allowed to use and this hinders > > current flashrom to identify the flash chip. > > Have you guys considered SMI cache poisoning attacks to work around > those restrictions? > > It would pretty much be a per bios version or per machine based > workaround, but if we can provide known good coreboot images, that might > be attractive for people out there... hehe, no i did not think about that. :) although it would be really cool, i dont think that it makes a lot of sense right now. adding support on a per-mainboard base can be done way easier and safer, and we are looking for a more generic way anyway (and i lack the knowledge to implement it too). it would be very cool to see a proof of concept though... :) -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
