Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Josh Litherland <> | | Subject | Re: Linux and IBM : "unauthorized" mini-PCI : TCPA updates | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:29:37 -0400 (EDT) |
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In article <1054658054.9359.49.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> you wrote:
> Secondly TCPA doesn't require such a restriction. A TCPA system can have > hardware whitelists so that the TCPA chip refuses to do any TCPA with > unknown devices present (since they may be hostile) but it doesn't have > to fail to boot in this case.
Interestingly, when the offending device is a modem, it will warn in the BIOS but will neither disable the device nor refuse to boot. Only when a wireless NIC is inserted will it grind to a bloody halt.
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