Re: WOL support for bge driver

2015-05-18 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 07:51:03PM +0200, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote: Folks, I discussed this topic with stsp@ some months ago, without doing a real follow-up. The bge driver lacks WOL support in the official tree, but a first version of the needed modifications were ready since OBSD

Re: WOL support for bge driver

2015-05-18 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:47:01 +0200 From: Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org OTOH, many laptops nowadays ship with Intel AMT and suffer the same issue or worse. Yet we still run on them. Current AMT versions have an attack surface that dwarfs ASF's. Perhaps this is a lost cause and we'll

Re: WOL support for bge driver

2015-05-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/05/18 11:54, Mark Kettenis wrote: Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:47:01 +0200 From: Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org OTOH, many laptops nowadays ship with Intel AMT and suffer the same issue or worse. Yet we still run on them. Current AMT versions have an attack surface that dwarfs

Re: WOL support for bge driver

2015-05-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
Actually, ASF is so horribly bad. So years ago we did make a decision to avoid it. WOL is not enough cause for enabling ASF.

WOL support for bge driver

2015-05-17 Thread Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
Folks, I discussed this topic with stsp@ some months ago, without doing a real follow-up. The bge driver lacks WOL support in the official tree, but a first version of the needed modifications were ready since OBSD 5.4 (see [1]). I reviewed the patches and made them compatible with the 5.7

wol support for bge

2014-04-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
The reason we don't enable WOL with bge cards is that they contain ASF firmware support which should not be exposed to untrusted traffic, so it's safer to power down bge devices altogether on power down. Since all bges except the rare 5700 version support ASF, this currently means no WOL support

Re: wol support for bge

2014-04-23 Thread Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
ASF firmware support which should not be exposed to untrusted traffic, so it's safer to power down bge devices altogether on power down. Since all bges except the rare 5700 version support ASF, this currently means no WOL support for bge cards at all. (If you want to know what's so bad about

Re: wol support for bge

2014-04-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:43:06AM -0500, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: This should work on sparc64? I have no idea, honestly. But I don't see the point since sparc64 can often be powered up remotely via ALOM.

Re: wol support for bge

2014-04-23 Thread Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
I know that, I just think I could do something fun with that box today... On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:43:06AM -0500, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: This should work on sparc64? I have no idea, honestly. But I

Re: wol support for bge

2014-04-23 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:43:06 -0500 From: Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda acam...@verlet.org This should work on sparc64? Unlikely.