[coreboot] ECC'17 Call for papers is out now !

[Zaolin]

All information about the CFP can be found via
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Re: [coreboot] Can you please send me your Intel ME firmware dump?

[Umang Raghuvanshi via coreboot]

I believe that the SSIDs aren’t stored in the BIOS ROM. Regardless of that, I 
managed to reverse-engineer a BIOS update package for my own laptop and managed 
to extract the MEI firmware.

Thanks for the help everyone!

Cheers,
Umang Raghuvanshi.

From: Martin Roth
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 11:50 PM
To: Persmule
Cc: Umang Raghuvanshi; Nicola Corna; coreboot
Subject: Re: [coreboot] Can you please send me your Intel ME firmware dump?

Also, IIRC, the network drivers communicate with the ME (on some, if not all 
versions of the ME) so there can be personal data (network SSIDs) saved in your 
BIOS ROM.  If you don't want these to be public, maybe you don't want to post 
your ME binary.

Martin

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Persmule  wrote:
Hi,

I could never send you anything extracted from MY flash chip, in order
not to violate copyright and similar laws,

but I could help you to resolve issues you met when dumping your own
flash chip.

Could you describe your issues about spi flash dumping?

Persmule


在 2017年06月11日 19:09, Umang Raghuvanshi 写道:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a student who aspires to research into the Intel ME firmware -
> unfortunately, I was unable to find any dumps of it online. I also tried
> to extract it from my own laptop but was unable to do so due to a number
> of issues.
>
> Can you please send me the firmware you dumped from your Lenovo ThinkPad
> (as mentioned in your excellent blogpost) - specifically, I'm looking
> for the file named factory_x220.bin as mentioned in the aforementioned post.
>
> I'd be really grateful if you could provide me with this file as it
> would greatly assist me in my research.
>
> Cheers,
> Umang Raghuvanshi.



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Re: [coreboot] soc/amd/stoneyridge

[Martin Roth]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 4:33 AM, Paul Menzel  wrote:
...

> Seeing the lack of manpower for AMD systems, I am concerned about
> two(?) solutions that need to be maintained. If the current experiment
> succeeds, there should be a roadmap how the current boards will be
> ported.
>

I'm not speaking here for the coreboot leadership, for AMD, or anyone
besides myself.

As far as I know, there is no plan to port the current boards forward.
This will be completely new implementation, entirely separate from the old
boards.

I don't see AMD going back to supporting the older platforms.  Same with
Intel, Rockchip, Google, or any other company.  They're going to support
the platforms that there is a financial incentive to support.  As soon as
they don't have a financial reason to support the platform any longer, it's
really going to be up to the community to take over if we want them to
continue moving forward.

We complain about companies using binaries, but then we ALSO complain when
companies open up the code that they're using because it doesn't meet our
standards. They gave the code to the community to use, and we STILL can't
be happy about it.  It's OPEN.  Edit it. Fork it.  Make it our own. If
we're just going to complain, what incentive do they have to make it open?
They had to go through a lot of work internally to be able to publish it,
working with the lawyers and having engineers go through and scrub
references to things they can't release. The code isn't perfect, but what
code is?

If the community wants the older platforms to move forward, then WE should
pick up support for the platforms we care about.  If nobody cares enough
about the platforms to say that they're going to help support them, then
they're going to be removed from the main tree after one of the upcoming
releases due to missing features.  At that point, there will only be one
solution to be maintained again.

We have some incredible people who work on the coreboot project.  I'm
always amazed and grateful to what people are willing to do in their spare
time.  Companies, however, don't typically have the same motivations as we
do, so if we want the older "obsolete" platforms to continue to progress,
we, the community will have to do that work.


If we make it too difficult for companies to participate in upstream
coreboot, they're just going to fork the code internally and not get our
feedback or reviews.  In my opinion, it's much better if we TRY to get
companies to work at coreboot.org instead of making it difficult for them
by trying to require them to maintain platforms that they no longer care
about.



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Re: [coreboot] Can you please send me your Intel ME firmware dump?

[Martin Roth]

Also, IIRC, the network drivers communicate with the ME (on some, if not
all versions of the ME) so there can be personal data (network SSIDs) saved
in your BIOS ROM.  If you don't want these to be public, maybe you don't
want to post your ME binary.

Martin

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Persmule  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I could never send you anything extracted from MY flash chip, in order
> not to violate copyright and similar laws,
>
> but I could help you to resolve issues you met when dumping your own
> flash chip.
>
> Could you describe your issues about spi flash dumping?
>
> Persmule
>
>
> 在 2017年06月11日 19:09, Umang Raghuvanshi 写道:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a student who aspires to research into the Intel ME firmware -
> > unfortunately, I was unable to find any dumps of it online. I also tried
> > to extract it from my own laptop but was unable to do so due to a number
> > of issues.
> >
> > Can you please send me the firmware you dumped from your Lenovo ThinkPad
> > (as mentioned in your excellent blogpost) - specifically, I'm looking
> > for the file named factory_x220.bin as mentioned in the aforementioned
> post.
> >
> > I'd be really grateful if you could provide me with this file as it
> > would greatly assist me in my research.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Umang Raghuvanshi.
>
>
>
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Re: [coreboot] Coreboot + Seabios Asus F2A85-M LE card

[Piotr Kubaj via coreboot]

My F2A85-M has UEFI by default, you probably also have UEFI. That means 
bios_extract won't work. You can keep trying to extract with UEFITool, or try 
this path https://www.coreboot.org/VGA_support#Retrieval_via_Linux_kernel

On 17-06-09 10:41:31, Gabriel Bosque wrote:
> Okay. I tried a path, which I thought was the most practical, but I have a
> problem:
> _I downloaded the .cap file from the card in Asus site
> _Using the UEFITool draw for asus.rom
> _By using ./bios_extract asus.rom, it gives msg:
>   Error: Unable to detect BIOS Image type.
> Any tips?
> 
> 2017-06-08 12:19 GMT-03:00 Piotr Kubaj :
> 
> > https://www.coreboot.org/VGA_support
> >
> > On 17-06-08 11:01:55, Gabriel Bosque wrote:
> > > Internal. Where do I find firmware for it?
> > >
> > > Tanks in advance
> > >
> > > 2017-06-08 10:45 GMT-03:00 Piotr Kubaj :
> > >
> > > > Do you use the internal GPU or external? If you use internal, you
> > probably
> > > > need firmware from AMD (SeaVGABIOS won't work). If you have external
> > GPU,
> > > > you don't need VGA option ROM at all.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, you don't need SeaVGABIOS.
> > > >
> > > > You also put CONFIG_QEMU_HARDWARE=y, which is unnecessary.
> > > >
> > >
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Re: [coreboot] Can you please send me your Intel ME firmware dump?

[Persmule]

Hi,

I could never send you anything extracted from MY flash chip, in order
not to violate copyright and similar laws,

but I could help you to resolve issues you met when dumping your own
flash chip.

Could you describe your issues about spi flash dumping?

Persmule


在 2017年06月11日 19:09, Umang Raghuvanshi 写道:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a student who aspires to research into the Intel ME firmware -
> unfortunately, I was unable to find any dumps of it online. I also tried
> to extract it from my own laptop but was unable to do so due to a number
> of issues.
>
> Can you please send me the firmware you dumped from your Lenovo ThinkPad
> (as mentioned in your excellent blogpost) - specifically, I'm looking
> for the file named factory_x220.bin as mentioned in the aforementioned post.
>
> I'd be really grateful if you could provide me with this file as it
> would greatly assist me in my research.
>
> Cheers,
> Umang Raghuvanshi.



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