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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers
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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> wro=
te:
> > >> > On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote:
> > >> [snip]
> > >>=20
> > >> >> I'm putting on my tinfoil hat now and I'm going to pretend it's
> > >> >> raining... :-/
> > >> >=20
> > >> > Can I please join you if you have a spare hat?
> > >> >=20
> > >> > On a 3 year old Dell laptop manufactured by the famous and well
> > >> > known
> > >> >=20
> > >> > Winbond Electronics </sarcasm> I see this under lshw:
> > >> > *-remoteaccess UNCLAIMED
> > >> > =20
> > >> > vendor: Intel
> > >> > physical id: 2
> > >> > capabilities: outbound
> > >> >=20
> > >> > but have not found a way of interrogating it or in anyway accessing
> > >> > it to understand what it is or does ...
> > >> >=20
> > >> >=20
> > >> > Note, this is not a UEFI machine:
> > >> >=20
> > >> > capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6 vsyscall32
> > >>=20
> > >> What proc?
> > >=20
> > > If you mean what /proc is this remoteaccess thing in, I don't really
> > > know. How can I find it?
> >=20
> > Sorry...what CPU do you have?
> >=20
> > cat /proc/cpuinfo
>=20
> Maybe this? -
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> BillK
This is my CPU, a first generation i7:
cat /proc/cpuinfo=20
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=20
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp=
lm=20
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc=20
aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm=20
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.
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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