From 3c95a777da129949aae9221adf2c7de96afc8a3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francis Rowe Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:29:08 -0500 Subject: fixlinks --- (limited to 'site/faq') diff --git a/site/faq/index.php b/site/faq/index.php index b73ac2d..80200fc 100644 --- a/site/faq/index.php +++ b/site/faq/index.php @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ severe security and freedom issues; so severe, that the libreboot project recommends avoiding all modern AMD hardware. If you have an AMD based system affected by the problems described below, then you should get rid of it as soon as possible. The main issues are as follows:

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AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) #amdpsp

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AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) #amdpsp

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.

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AMD IMC firmware #amdimc

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AMD IMC firmware #amdimc

Read https://www.coreboot.org/AMD_IMC.

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AMD SMU firmware #amdsmu

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AMD SMU firmware #amdsmu

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.

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AMD AGESA firmware #amdagesa

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AMD AGESA firmware #amdagesa

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.

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AMD CPU microcode updates #amdmicrocode

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AMD CPU microcode updates #amdmicrocode

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).

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AMD is incompetent (and uncooperative) #amdbastards

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AMD is incompetent (and uncooperative) #amdbastards

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