[tor-relays] EOMA68 as a platform for trustworthy computing? / was: Exploiting firmware

[Roman Mamedov]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:11:48 +0100
Christian Pietsch <christian.pietsch at digitalcourage.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:41:46AM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> > On AMD that's been implemented only after "Family 15h"
> > https://libreboot.org/faq/#amdbastards
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_CPU_microarchitectures
> > 
> > Family 15h itself is safe.
> > 
> > It includes FX-series 8-core CPUs at up to 5 GHz supporting DDR3-2133 RAM:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piledriver_%28microarchitecture%29
> > 
> > So don't handwave-away AMD with "they are doing that too", today you CAN have
> > a non-backdoored modern high-performance CPU -- from AMD.
> 
> Interesting, but this microarchitecture entered the market in 2012 and
> is probably being phased out now, I guess?

It is still their current desktop/server performance offer today, the next
generation ("AMD Zen", also making the switch to DDR4, and likely adding that
PSP) is planned to be released some time in 2017 and is mostly at the stage of
announcements and rumors right now.

-- 
With respect,
Roman