Intel AMT/ME Deduplication

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As @datagutten found out, there are several (not directly related) devices that share the same AMT/ME engines which would make it possible to deduplicate those downloads to a common folder. E.g.:

• HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 share ME update with HP EliteBook 8xx G1
• HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G2 share ME update with HP EliteBook 8xx G2
• HP EliteBook Folio 9470m share ME update with HP ProBook-EliteBook xx70
• HP EliteBook Folio 9480m share ME update with HP EliteBook 8xx G1
• HP EliteBook x360 1030 G2 share ME update with HP ZBook 1x G4
• HP ZBook 1x G4 share ME update with HP Pro x2 612 G2

The pull request #71 with these changes will be accepted, but only the changes for the Folio devices will have their ME shared, all others will be rolled back. That's because I fear that, if an update to ME files in the shared folder "x360 1030" is applied, no operator is aware of the fact that this will also have an effect on a ZBook.

Clearly, this deduplication has advantages in terms of storage and update effort, but for any operator not aware of the dependencies I fear this to cause confusion.

Maybe we could find one common indicator between those models that share the same ME version. Maybe the chipset name? If so, we could create a folder based on that, e.g. "Q45 ME-AMT". But I'm unsure if this would be easily understand for the operators.

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When checking for a common indicator, we can use the list in HPSBHF03571 and which devices are listed as getting their update from Softpaq #82486.

• HP ZBook 15 G4 Mobile Workstation - http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c05381086.pdf
• HP EliteBook x360 1030 G2 - http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c05275190
• HP Elite x2 1012 G2 Tablet - http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c05505818.pdf
• HP EliteBook 850 G4 - http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/getpdf.aspx/c05330730.pdf?ver=4.0
• HP Pro x2 612 G2 - http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c05373376
• HP ProBook 650 G3 - http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c05240724

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The only common indicator I found is that they all seem to use an "Intel 7th generation processors", but I doubt that this ME will match any iX-7xxx.

Also, except for the ZBook, HP does not mention the chipset.

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This issue was now opened for several weeks, without any response. I will close it within the next days if not someone comes up with an idea how to solve this.