Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Wednesday 06 Jun 2012 02:14:45 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 10:21 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday 04 Jun 2012 13:57:11 Michael Mol wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote:
> > >> [snip]
> > >> 
> > >> >> I'm putting on my tinfoil hat now and I'm going to pretend it's
> > >> >> raining... :-/
> > >> > 
> > >> > Can I please join you if you have a spare hat?
> > >> > 
> > >> > On a 3 year old Dell laptop manufactured by the famous and well
> > >> > known
> > >> > 
> > >> > Winbond Electronics </sarcasm> I see this under lshw:
> > >> >  *-remoteaccess UNCLAIMED
> > >> >  
> > >> >       vendor: Intel
> > >> >       physical id: 2
> > >> >       capabilities: outbound
> > >> > 
> > >> > but have not found a way of interrogating it or in anyway accessing
> > >> > it to understand what it is or does ...
> > >> > 
> > >> > 
> > >> > Note, this is not a UEFI machine:
> > >> > 
> > >> > capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6 vsyscall32
> > >> 
> > >> What proc?
> > > 
> > > If you mean what /proc is this remoteaccess thing in, I don't really
> > > know. How can I find it?
> > 
> > Sorry...what CPU do you have?
> > 
> > cat /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> Maybe this? -
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
> 
> There is a kernel interface (under power management I think) and I seem
> to remember some of my recent motherboards come with it.  If you have a
> dell, look up iDRECV which does something similar.  Its not only the
> cpu, but the motherboard you need to worry about.
> 
> BillK

This is my CPU, a first generation i7:

cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 30
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       Q 720  @ 1.60GHz
stepping	: 5
microcode	: 0x4
cpu MHz		: 933.000
cache size	: 6144 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 8
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 11
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov 
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm 
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc 
aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm 
sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips	: 3192.11
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

You note that "power management:" above is empty.

grep-ping the /proc tree for remoteaccess does not bring up anything.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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