>>5977the ch341a blasts 5v onto your data lines, this isnt good for your chip but isnt gonna kill it if you aren't flashing it 200 times or more. putting 5V onto your VCC would be problematic.
>cant find a good .bincompile your own, and i doubt libreboot supports it, but if coreboot supports it go port it, theres a relatively retard proof guide on how to port a machine to libreboot if its already supported by coreboot, all you need to do is copypaste shit, compile, and verify it works.
>one of the lines2 actually, MISO and MOSI. there are green and blue ch341a flashers by the way, theyre just a little harder to find, but they dont blast 5V onto your data lines if you actually worry about that.
i have flashed hundreds of thinkpads and other computers/chips with a ch341a and have never fried a chip, or seen anyone who fried his chip.
its wrong sure, but its autistic "b-but thats wroooong!1!", because its a hack and not how it should actually be done, but it does work.
and does lunix werk or not?
>>5976>blabla they would have to redesign the entire chipset to not need IMEabsolute bullshit, you can remove the IME on pre-2008 hardware entirely, and on post-2008 hardware you can shrink a 6MiB image down to around 70KiB. they would ONLY have to get rid of "anti-theft" bullshit so the computer doesnt shut down after 30 minutes when you remove the IME.
>durr how hurr do you durr hurr access ssh without a monitor and keyboardclient machine, how do use and manage another computer without any keyboard or monitor on a client machine, just thin air and magic? or do you use a tty typewriter with a serial cable like me?
>not attachedlinuxboot is basically just linux as your bios, you flash it and tell it to run your ssh daemon so you can access it over ethernet or whatever you connected your server to.
>durr how do you install the OSsince linuxboot is literally just busybox in your firmware, you can use this to unpack a tarball, write a disk image, do network boot, ssh into the booted OS, etc...
>muh RDPwhats that?
>buggyi havent seen any problems with it yet, it works flawlessly on my servers.
>durr you wont be able to access italso false, retard
flashrom -p internal -w linuxboot.romthere you go, how do wintoddler flash bioses?
OH WAIT- they CANT even access the whole chip LOL!
they have to do poorfag partial writes like fucking retards who cant be trusted to hack around with their computers
>linuxboot takes up a lot more spacelinux isnt minix, it has a LOT more code and a LOT more features than minix.
>5MiB on a 16M bioswell all the proprietary israel inside shit i worked with in the past had either 8M or 16M flash chips, while older thinkpads have 2M and 4M ones. all the 8M ones i worked with had 6M ME images, while the 2 16M ones had 8M of ME bullshit.
>pretending that proprietary software is impossible to do forensics onits not, but its a pain in the ass. the ME has pretty much been reverse engineered, and has been proven to be a rootkit. how do you think did they figure out how to remove the ME on pre-2008 hardware or shrink it to 70KiB on post-2008 hardware?
reverse engineering and years of hard tedious work of course.
its still proprietary and nobody needs or wants it, and my other points still stand. hell, at least give users the ability to remove it if they dont want it, or just dont include it by default and let users install it afterwards if they really want it for some reason, you will see that 99.9999% of all people who don't have servers will not do this because most of them dont even know what it is or does.
>muh enterprise>theft protection and device surveillance>thinkpads and SMELL latitude are enterprise laptops and have IME/AMTexactly, its for restricting your freedom. its for spying on you in a business environment to make sure youre not stealing "your" laptop or doing anything "bad" with it, why the fuck would a normal home user want such a thing on his computer?
>you can access it via AMTi mean directly access, root access, full control, a terminal you can fuck around in.
>you cant screw around with it and install a backdoor>implying the IME isnt a backdoor by itselflol
and yes, you cant access it and fuck around with it, thats exactly what i meant.
>oy vey you shouldnt access the OS directly because muh backdoorsthen how do you update the IME? muh hecking signed keys by intel that have been leaked recently so any script kiddo can flash his own ROM?
LOL, so much to security.