Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bootimg and LOBOS | Date | Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:28:12 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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 :-()
Sigh, look the source for a major vendors bios has been left for ftp by accident ? by a major motherboard vendor for a year. Personally I have better thigns to do than read it, but every goddam petty little intel cpu initialisation secret, including the planned but dropped 'cpu overclocked loop and hang test' is known the entire planet and has been for at least six months.
Alan
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