From 3c95a777da129949aae9221adf2c7de96afc8a3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francis Rowe
This is basically AMD's own version of the Intel Management Engine. It has all of the same basic security and freedom issues, although the implementation is wildly different. @@ -413,11 +413,11 @@ would have the ability to remotely monitor and control any PSP enabled machine. completely outside of the user's knowledge.
-Read https://www.coreboot.org/AMD_IMC.
-Read https://www.coreboot.org/AMD_IMC.
@@ -433,20 +433,20 @@ free firmware, but on the relevant system (ASUS F2A85-M) there were still other blobs present (Video BIOS, and others) preventing the hardware from being supported in libreboot. -This is responsible for virtually all core hardware initialization on modern AMD systems. In 2011, AMD started cooperating with the coreboot project, releasing this as source code under a free license. In 2014, they stopped releasing source code and started releasing AGESA as binary blobs instead. This makes AGESA now equivalent to Intel FSP.
-Read the Intel section #microcode. AMD's updates are practically the same, though it was found with much later hardware in AMD that you could run without microcode updates. It's unknown whether the updates are needed on all AMD boards (depends on CPU).
-AMD seemed like it was on the right track in 2011 when it started cooperating with and releasing source code for several critical components to the coreboot project. -- cgit v0.9.1