top | item 10380170 (no title) k8tte | 10 years ago to be fair, that's 2 MiB code that is the base of the other os you never heard of, the IME, AMT and their backdoor capabilities [1]1: https://fsf.org/blogs/community/active-management-technology discuss order hn newest creshal|10 years ago No, that's just the CPU µcode. IME/AMT are part of the BIOS/EFI images, which is a whopping 16 MiB for my current motherboard. makomk|10 years ago The current CPU microcode download appears to be 0.81 MB compressed for every single Intel CPU since the Pentium 4. jokr004|10 years ago You know, lights out management is a wonderful thing and there's never been any kind of evidence that these features do anything but offer functionality that Intel's customers asked for.
creshal|10 years ago No, that's just the CPU µcode. IME/AMT are part of the BIOS/EFI images, which is a whopping 16 MiB for my current motherboard. makomk|10 years ago The current CPU microcode download appears to be 0.81 MB compressed for every single Intel CPU since the Pentium 4.
makomk|10 years ago The current CPU microcode download appears to be 0.81 MB compressed for every single Intel CPU since the Pentium 4.
jokr004|10 years ago You know, lights out management is a wonderful thing and there's never been any kind of evidence that these features do anything but offer functionality that Intel's customers asked for.
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