Intel ME >= 11 or < 11. Which one is more likely to get completely removed in future?

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Intel ME >= 11 or < 11. Which one is more likely to get completely removed in future? #256

Open maenpaa24 opened 5 years ago

maenpaa24 commented 5 years ago

Hi!

My question is based on the following post from purism:

https://puri.sm/posts/deep-dive-into-intel-me-disablement/

It seems that broadwell chips have more code on the intel ME's ROM than the skylake ones. So I wonder if in future intel ME >=11 will be easier to be removed completely than intel ME<11. Or to reach the goal of removing the ME completeley we'd better stay on intel ME<11 processors (let alone intel ME <=5 of course).

Thanks.

czeej commented 5 years ago

Any thing post Skylake.. The kernel can't be removed. Depends Corna said every implementation is different.

I noticed depending on your Bios. Certain modules and default Me.cleaner settings may not work. So you can see what partitions can be removed.