Chris Albertson wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Ryan Malayter <[email protected]> wrote:
. have you ever audited the code of your BIOS? Or the firmware
on your chipsets, NICs, RAID cards, or disk drives? Your "control" of
a physical server is just as illusory as that of a Virtual Machine.
Yes, Linux, after the first boot block is loaded does not use any of
that code, no BIOS calls are made from the OS, none of other ROMs
either. It's open Source so people read the code.
My understanding is that system management mode code is still executed.
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