Re: bootimg and LOBOS

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 06:35:17 EST

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Hi!

> it's not the recovery part, it's regular flash. Flash is written by
> pumping the processor into SMM mode and running code out of the SMM memory
> in BigReal mode. As part of the process it sets the Secret Bit. Of course,
> the bad guys already know which bit that is :-) (but we don't :-()

Maybe you should the bad guys, then? ;-).

> They don't seem to worry as much about being sued by Intel, wonder
> why :-)

How could Intel sue them?

Pavel

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