codifies
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While I really apreciate the open source nature of intels new GPU's (basically open source from bare metal to userland) one thing I've long been uneasy about is Intel's Managment engine (or equivilents)
With no actual way to shut it off (Its designed primarily for anti theft recovery) it has access to DMA (memory HD etc) and worse still it has access to a network device... to me its just a backdoor waiting to be reverse enginered (am I paranoid to suspect US "inteligence" services have been provided access keys?)
While the public documents look good for the OMAP5 I was wondering if anyone had heard any nasty rumours - while intels ME relies on a seperate controller on the motherboard (cpu resets if it doesn't get conformation from this controller) with a SoC a lot of the "motherboard" is on the die...
With no actual way to shut it off (Its designed primarily for anti theft recovery) it has access to DMA (memory HD etc) and worse still it has access to a network device... to me its just a backdoor waiting to be reverse enginered (am I paranoid to suspect US "inteligence" services have been provided access keys?)
While the public documents look good for the OMAP5 I was wondering if anyone had heard any nasty rumours - while intels ME relies on a seperate controller on the motherboard (cpu resets if it doesn't get conformation from this controller) with a SoC a lot of the "motherboard" is on the die...